But I would say basically, I would just like to be remembered for what I did on the field.

You've gotta find a way to get out of your own way, so you can progress in life.

So what I did on the field was the essence of what I am. Remember me like that.

Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.

I trained myself to perform on the field.

The final release point for the fastball is the tips of your fingers.

That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect.

Rooting is following, and I don't do that, but I'd like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia.

I threw all my pitches over the top which was important for me because my slider was hard to tell from my fastball at release.

Everything I was, physically and mentally, that's what I put on that field.

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

Have you ever experienced a beauty of soul, an esthetic grace, that was so intense it made you want to cry?"From Central Park Song ( A Screenplay )

If you want God to unfailingly do His part, then you must be willing to tirelessly fulfill yours.

Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.

There is One unchanging indivisible Reality which, though unmanifest, reveals Itself in infinite multiplicity and diversity.

My primary calling, I always knew since the age of 11, was as a composer, and so that had to take priority.

I'm not scared, because I know that I need to face the trial. What I mean is, I already expect I will need to pay the price.

Depression is the reward we get for being 'good'.

One day you can be a kid, but another day you have to be like this is your job, you play tennis. You have to work for that.

Our lives are at once ordinary and mythical. At the same instant we have these magnificent hearts that pump through all sorrow and all winters we are alive on the earth.

A cause breaks or exalts a soldier's strength; unless that cause is just, shame will make him throw his weapons away.