Carlton does not pitch to the hitter, he pitches through him. The batter hardly exists for Steve. He's playing an elevated game of catch.

Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.

The reason we call that pitch up and in is because the arms are attached to the shoulder.

Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.

That pitch wasn't down and in, that pitch was down and up.

A walk is as good as a home run.

Roy Oswalt is a drop and drive pitcher. What is a drop and drive pitcher? He is a guy who drops and drives. Very simple.

When a catcher has to use his thumb to give signs, that means the pitcher has more than four pitches.

One thing about ground balls: they don't go out of the ballpark.

When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.

I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit!

Being a Christian doesn't mean trouble never comes our way, Zach. It just means God is here, and He gives us the grace to get through the heartache.

Free the fire fluttering inside her rib cage. Work her muscles, the bow, the violin, until she played herself to ash and embers and left the rest of the world behind to smolder.

A secret weighs on us, a terrible secret weighs with a terrible weight.

Spielberg's film portrays Oscar as a hero of this century. That is not true. Neither he nor I were heroes. We were just what we were able to be. In war we are all souls without a destiny.

I love life and if there's something that I'm playing that I love, I'll research it.

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

The job of leadership today is not just to make money, it's to make meaning.

There is always a moment in the pyramid of our lives when the apex is reached.

Ambition displeases when it has been sated ... having reached the peak, it aspires to descend.

Steven Spielberg makes Minority Report with the newest digital technology; other directors seem to be trying to make their movies from it.