People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands.

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.

And yet, I have not wronged you, have I? Indeed if there is anyone I may have sinned against, it is me. That desiring you as I do, needing you as I do, I still let you go.

Once you learn to celebrate your failures, you are on the way to becoming the real deal!

The first great chess players, including the world champion, got by perfectly well without constant coaches.

As a younger person I think I thought of myself as a Tony [from The Best Man], struggling with the legacy of my famous parents.

My dad was the town drunk. Most of the time that's not so bad; but New York City?

Poor heretics there be,Which think to establish dangerous constancy,But I have told them, ‘Since you will be true,You shall be true to them, who are false to you.

I'd be derelict in my duty if I didn't go and continue to use every advantage that I can to promote New York's cause.

Start with a style and you are in chains, start with an idea and you are free.

I would lose myself too much if I thought of myself as the audience.

If forced to choose between the penitentiary and the White House for four years, I would say the penitentiary, thank you.