Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

I'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius.

Gentlemen, for the first 60 feet that was a hell of a pitch.

You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.

When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.

A good hitter has timing. A good pitcher upsets timing.

I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie forever if I'd only struck him out.

Home plate is 17 inches wide, but I ignore the middle 12 inches. I pitch to the two-and-a-half inches on each side.

How can there be too many children? That is like saying there are too many flowers." ~ Mother Teresa of Calcutta

I have come here not to find answers, but to find a way to live in a world without any.

An editor is bound to avoid the meshes of the law, which are always infinitely more costly to companies, or things, or institutions, than they are to individuals.

I'm pro-death penalty, but what I have not seen is anybody that would mock someone on death row.

An ancient prophecy ... pronounced, That the castle and lordship of Otranto should pass from the present family, whenever the real owner should be grown too large to inhabit it!

To be sensual, I think, is to respect and rejoice in the force of life, of life itself, and to be present in all that one does, from the effort of loving to the breaking of bread.

In show business, you get chewed up and spit out.

And consider: it is loss to which everything flows, absence in which everything flowers

When it looks like the sun isn't going to shine any more, God puts a rainbow in the clouds. Each one of us has the possibility, the responsibility, the probability to be the rainbow in the clouds.

I believe there are two sides to the phenomenon known as death, this side where we live, and the other side where we shall continue to live. Eternity does not start ith death. We are in eternity now.