One thing about ground balls: they don't go out of the ballpark.

Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.

The reason we call that pitch up and in is because the arms are attached to the shoulder.

Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.

That pitch wasn't down and in, that pitch was down and up.

A walk is as good as a home run.

Roy Oswalt is a drop and drive pitcher. What is a drop and drive pitcher? He is a guy who drops and drives. Very simple.

When a catcher has to use his thumb to give signs, that means the pitcher has more than four pitches.

When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.

I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit!

Watch Darren Daulton use his mitt like a glove.

Maddie breathed in deep, inhaling the scent of breakfast and dish soap, clean laundry and wood floors, sunshine and a room filled with love. It smelled like home.

Happiness is self-contained and self-sufficient. Happy men have no time and no use for you. Happy men are free men.

I've always found it pretty difficult to write a happy song.

The mystery lies in the use of language to express human life.

I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have to not paint that way.

Wise people may say what they will, but one passion is never cured by another.

I really love when people come up to me on the street and say, 'You're my favorite rapper.'

an act of forgiveness sets the victim apart from the perpetrator, who failed to act humanly towards the victim at the time he committed his crime.

I'm a child of the 50s. I was expected to have table manners. There needs to be some expectations for behavior. I'm seeing some children today, they don't push them enough.

Nicknames stick to people, and the most ridiculous are the most adhesive.