I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance.

I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something.

Im a finesse pitcher without the finesse.

I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.

Today baseball is currently enjoying a run of more than 14 years without interruption, a record that would have been inconceivable in the 1990s.

We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn't really have that data, because a lot of times it was discarded.

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

I love being out there on the mound with the ball in my hand. I can control the game. I'm out there. No clock - nothing happens until I throw that thing. Nothing happens. I love that feeling.

I have a future and I have a mind and I have things to look forward to,' but to me it's just about..I love to pitch so much.

At nighttime, you just try to keep him out of jail.

If he couldn’t appreciate the passion and beauty in you than that’s his shame, not yours.”--Ciaran Ross, Killer Curves

Don’t underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.

I remember being onstage once when I didn't have fear: I got so scared I didn't have fear that it brought on an anxiety attack.

If you're afraid to fail, you'll never succeed.

I very seldom, during my whole stay in the country, heard a sentence elegantly turned, and correctly pronounced from the lips of an American.

Never make a speech at a country dance or a football game.

The peculiar danger of executive power is that it executes.

Again, both literature and philosophy work by appealing to certain reigning idols.

There should always be in sight the draw — a kind of a beacon that draws you on through the labyrinth.

It would be more interesting to learn from children, than try to teach them how to behave, how to live and how to function.