It took me a few years to realize that throwing harder wasn't always better.

The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down

But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.

I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.

When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team.

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears

My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important

I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.

Love had always issued out of the places that hurt the most.

War on the other hand is such a terrible thing, that no man, especially a Christian man, has the right to assume the responsibility of starting it.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Love is a piano dropped from a fourth story window, and you were in the wrong place at the wrong time.

When you have to wait 10 and 15 years for an approval and then you don't even get the approval, it's no good.

By allowing the positive ions to pass through an electric field and thus giving them a certain velocity, it is possible to distinguish them from the neutral, stationary atoms.

To lead other people is to be able to impact them in a positive way: mentally, emotionally, spiritually, physically.

A good deed hidden in silence dies.

Faced with the sacredness of life and of the human person, and before the marvels of the universe, wonder is the only appropriate attitude.

My life is only half full When I receive. My heart is completely full Only when I give.