Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.

Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers.

A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.

I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer.

Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.

It helps to be stupid if you're a relief pitcher. Relievers had to get into a zone of their own. I just hope I'm stupid enough.

Strikes (1981) are real life. It took up seven weeks of real time. That's a fifth of a pregnancy.

I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.

Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.

Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

Do not be too sure, young fellows, That you are better than your ancestors.

Half hating, half loving, this free time between writing books.

Some believe strongly that each Christian may have his own guardian angel assigned to watch over him or her.

There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters

Don't eat processed food, refined food but rather organic food from the earth - nothing with genetically - modified ingredients.

All my life, I've been frightened at the moment I sit down to write.

I don't want to be a saint; I just want to help people.

Geometry is one and eternal shining in the mind of God

To feed on death is to become food for death. To live by other's pain is to become a prey for pain. So has decreed the omni-will. Know that and choose your course !