Once (Stan) Musial timed your fastball, your infielders were in jeopardy.

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

I'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius.

Gentlemen, for the first 60 feet that was a hell of a pitch.

You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.

When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.

A good hitter has timing. A good pitcher upsets timing.

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie forever if I'd only struck him out.

I would never understand how hurt and confused and hopeless he must have felt, to decide it wasn't worth trying, and I wasn't mad at him anymore for doing it...

Once she had said to him that what they had was grace. Even now, married properly, rank bestowed, it still was. And always would be

Right. That's twenty-two fifty.""Twenty-two fifty?" We can't hide our exasperation."Well, yeah - this is a classy joint, you know.""That's obvious - the service is incredible.

My father was a professor of political science and also a young politician fighting for democracy in Kenya, and when things got ugly, he went into political exile in Mexico.

we learn the process of emptying out, cleaning house, both within and without.

We nationalize hydrocarbons, so now the economy is improving and the fight against poverty is also improving in Bolivia.

You must neither completely nor partially copy the art of others. If so, you will be producing kitsch.

There are two types of speakers: those that are nervous and those that are liars.

Courage is a strange thing: One can never be sure of it

I'd rather have a lot of little donations than a couple big ones. That shows that people care and are giving what they can.