You're trying your damndest, you strike out and they boo you. I act like it doesn't bother me, like I don't hear anything the fans say, but the truth is I hear every word of it and it kills me.

If you could equate the amount of time and effort put in mentally and physically into succeeding on the baseball field and measured it by the dirt on your uniform, mine would have been black.

I don't think I can get into my deep inner thoughts about hitting. It's like talking about religion.

Any time you think you have the game conquered, the game will turn around and punch you right in the nose.

I can't stand satisfaction. To me, greatness comes from that quest for perfection.

Philadelphia is the only city, where you can experience the thrill of victory and the agony of reading about it the next day.

If you're associated with the Philadelphia media or town, you look for negatives. I don't know if there's something about their upbringing or they have too many hoagies, or too much cream cheese.

Pete Rose is the most likable arrogant person I've ever met.

I need to be out earning. I can make more in two hours at a card show than I did [as a minor-league manager] all year.

I could ask the Phillies to keep me on to add to my statistics, but my love for the game won't let me do that.

It isn't that hard to get RBI's when you're hitting home runs, you generally get a least one.

Government should be a floor upon which the good of the people flourishes, not a ceiling upon which people bump their heads!

With my divorce, and even during the end of my marriage before it even got publicly bad, how I decided to cope with things was to go on the treadmill for an hour.

That which you manifest is before you. The visible becomes inevitable. Your car goes where your eyes go.

Poetry is a hazardous occupation, very hazardous. There may be bad things in there inside you that maybe you can't handle.

You have to be true to the game you're covering, whether its being lite at times - I certainly try to be that way - but it is limiting because you're fitting it in around what's going on in the game.

Fresh peach pie can lift a bullying reprobate into apologetic courtesy; I have watched it happen.

When I started teaching in the late 60s, in a time of student revolutions and changes, they changed in question of society and authority.

True faith begins with true repentance for whatever we have been doing that is wrong.

I'm enjoying my life, post-menopause, so much. It's just so great to grow into yourself, and not be bothered with all that tyranny of biology.

The names for things don't come first. Words stagger after, hopelessly trying to become the sensation.