Back then, if you had a sore arm, the only people concerned were you and your wife. Now it's you, your wife, your agent, your investment counselor, your stockbroker, and your publisher.

You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it.

For a hundred years, the owners screwed the players. For 25 years, the players have screwed the owners-they've got 75 years to go.

If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

Lots of people look up to Billy Martin. That's because he just knocked them down.

We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.

Forget goals. Value the process.

You're only as smart as your ERA.

The best advice is not to write what you know, it's to write what you like. Write the kind of story you like best- write the story you want to read.

If you risk nothing then you risk everything.

I couldn't care less about who sees my bits ... My friends asked how I could do scenes like that and not get excited, but it wasn't like that. My bits looked the size of a cashew nut!

The only answer to a regime that wages total cold war is to wage total peace.

If it's a good cause, I'll play just about anything.

Even if one understands that what one is doing is mad, it is indeed still madness -

No matter how much you consumed, you would not have your fill.

Spies go to bars for the same reason people go to libraries: full of information if you know where to ask.

You don't want to disappoint. Especially someone like me who's been out of music for years and hasn't had an album in like, four years.

Criminality should be exterminated by disabling all notorious and irreclaimable criminals.