The fastball is the best pitch in baseball. It's like having five pitches, if you move it around.

Family is everything. It is even more important than baseball.

I give him (Frank Howard during April 28, 1968 two-hitter) shoulder, back, foot and the ball last," and Frank Howard commented, "He threw everything at me but the ball.

If we lose today, it will be over my dead body. They'll have to leave me face down on the mound.

When I'm in Boston, I always feel like I'm home. I almost cry, I feel so good.

I had dreamed about being a college coach for a long time, but with no education, I never thought I would get a chance.

I didn't do it (pitch like he did) for show. I did it to get batters out. Players would tell me, 'We can't tell where the ball is coming from.'

The best plans are always the simplest.

I like fish, " chirruped Tunstell."Really, Mr. Tunstell? What is your preferred breed?""Well"--Tunstell hesitated--"you know, the um, ones that"--he made a swooping motion with both hands--"uh, swim.

We are going home to many who cannot read. So Lord make us to be Bibles so that those who cannot read the Book can read it in us.

Taking risks and making choices is what makes life so exciting.

There is no cure for narrowness of mind.

I talk to my parents more than anybody in my family.

I went on countless auditions. I begged my parents until I finally was allowed to be in a theatrical play when I was 13. It was the most important thing in my life

A linguist deaf to the poetic functions of language and a literary scholar indifferent to linguistics are equally flagrant anachronisms.

I love those hockey moms. You know what they say the difference between a hockey mom and a pit bull is? Lipstick.

When people are still getting pleasure from something that you did 30 years ago, it makes you feel good. I always say it makes an old man happy.