Today baseball is currently enjoying a run of more than 14 years without interruption, a record that would have been inconceivable in the 1990s.

I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance.

I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something.

Im a finesse pitcher without the finesse.

I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.

We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn't really have that data, because a lot of times it was discarded.

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

I love being out there on the mound with the ball in my hand. I can control the game. I'm out there. No clock - nothing happens until I throw that thing. Nothing happens. I love that feeling.

I have a future and I have a mind and I have things to look forward to,' but to me it's just about..I love to pitch so much.

At nighttime, you just try to keep him out of jail.

Life is a gracious gift.

Read whatever book you lay your hands on if you can, for every writer has a story to tell

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20%.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

I defend both the freedom of expression and society's right to counter it. I must pay the price for differing. It is the natural way of things.

Gold cometh gladly and in increasing quantity to any man who will put by not less than one-tenth of his earnings to create an estate for his future and that of his family.

I know nothing. I know no one. I’m lonely. Every time I see you, you’ve put up some new wall, and you never let me in.

I've forgotten many things, but I'll never forget a melody.

As far as action is concerned, our films have been coming up with some great sequences. In fact, I think Hollywood is copying Bollywood by getting their heroes to bash up 15 guys at a time.

If you have ambition, you might not achieve anything, but without ambition, you are almost certain not to achieve anything.