And to play as long as I did and to have a family you have to be very blessed and I was with my wife Ruth. Ruth, I appreciate the job you did, and my three fine children, Reid, Reese, and Wendy.

My job is to give my team a chance to win.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt. Only by being open to change will you have a true opportunity to get the most from your talent.

It helps if the hitter thinks you're a little crazy.

Pitching in the big leagues is a dream. Preparing to pitch in the big leagues is a nightmare!

I grew up with the thought that I wanted to treat people the way I'd like to be treated, and I think if you do that, it's pretty hard to go wrong.

Enjoying success requires the ability to adapt.

When I had dyslexia, they didn't diagnose it as that. It was frustrating and embarrassing. I could tell you a lot of horror stories about what you feel like on the inside.

A successful pitcher keeps the leadoff hitter from reaching first base and puts the first pitch over for a strike - the two most important rules of pitching.

Everyone has limits. You just have to learn what your own limits are and deal with them accordingly.

With a secret like that, at some point the secret itself becomes irrelevant. The fact that you kept it does not.

Authentic Christianity should lead to maturity, personality, and reality. It should fashion whole men and women living lives of love and communion

I had a kind of meandering little career, and then I was given a chance to play one of the bottom six in The Dirty Dozen.

That makes me think of spandex-covered football players. It's not me. I'm in rhinestones and velvet, not spandex.

I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well.

When women age into their power, no wind can upset them, no hand turn aside their knowledge, no fact can deflect their point of view.

I am skeptical in principle, gullible in practice.

No one has yet invented a system of education that is capable of ruining everyone.

The guys who take shortcuts, who aren't ready, they fail when their opportunity comes

Life is like a balloon; you must put something into it to get the best possible results.