One of the nicest satisfactions you can have is to be able to give something back to your parents when they've given so much to you.

If you can get an out on one pitch, take it. Let the strikeouts come on the outstanding pitches. Winning is the big thing. If you throw a lot of pitches, before you know it, your arm is gone.

When I went back to Shea last year it really hit me how much the fans care for me, it still gives me goose bumps. I want to do the right thing for them and my family.

I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.

My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people.

My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad.

He makes it look easy. You wish there was another league he could get called up to.

Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in.

I'm glad I don't have to face that guy (Don Mattingly) every day. He has that look that few hitters have. I don't know if it's his stance, his eyes or what, but you can tell he means business.

You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.

The day I pitched, I would drink either 'cause I was celebrating or I lost and couldn't sleep.

Finance is the art of passing money from hand to hand until it finally disappears.

Real love when it comes, it doesn't look like anything you'd expect.

And all was black and still, and black and cold, and black and dead, and black.

The creditor whose appearance gladdens the heart of a debtor may hold his head in sunbeams and his foot on storms.

If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity.

The way he was playing, he probably could have scored on Jesus.

They [Japanese whalers] haven't produced a single peer-reviewed international scientific paper in 23 years.

As a writer, it's disheartening to write books that you pour your soul into and not have them distributed widely enough to find their audience.

I did theatre all my life and then went into the film world. I then kind of segued into TV land, which is a different experience.

I've never been in love with fashion, actually; trends and catwalks don't interest me. I love clothes; I love them historically and currently. They represent a spirit of the times and the zeitgeist.