But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.

The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down

I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.

When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team.

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears

My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important

I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.

People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands.

Terrorism should be seen in the light of the country's security and not from the narrow perspective of caste, creed and religion.

Conceptions without experience are void; experience without conceptions is blind.

Take the joy and bear the sorrow, looking past your hopes and fears: learn to recognize the measured dance that orders all our years.

I embrace my weirdness and the things I maybe didn't used to love about myself. Those are things that make me different.

I'm from Canada and my wife is from St. Albans, so I feel a great kinship with the Brits.

When the pastor and his or her church have a vision, they will put their energy, time, money, and personnel into achieving it.

When you carry yesterday's thinking into today, you program tomorrow to be like yesterday.

Imprudence relies on luck, prudence on method. That gives prudence less edge than it expects.

The most beautiful, perhaps the only true philosophical song existing in any known tongue ....perhaps the deepest and loftiest thing the world has to show.

You think this is a trap then?" the Count asked. "I always think everything is a trap until proven otherwise," the Prince answered. "Which is why I'm still alive.