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

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.

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

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

Pina colada kisses and cocaine nipsnever lie, swear to me that this feeling is real.

Public sentiment is everything. With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Our trouble is not ignorance, but inaction.

I think i always had a perfectly clear view of what was possible for the public. "Give'em what they never knew they wanted".

What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.

Within this realm of choicelessness, we do choose how we live.

No one cares about it more than you. Give it the attention it needs.

I have said it often and I will say it again: I believe you learn to read when you are young, then read to learn for the rest of your life.

You can't be a woman and not be a feminist, I don't think. If you care about the world and the world you exist in and your rights.

If people are saying you’re wrong that’s probably a good sign that you’re a genius.