Everybody's dream is to be in the big leagues, but only one in a million gets here.

Taking the GED and moving on to my dream of playing baseball was what I wanted to do, and my mom and dad supported me.

You can either take it as a way to motivate yourself or be happy with what you've got.

A good changeup is what I need to get to the next level.

I'm not a big city guy...there's too many people, there's too much traffic.

I prided myself on working as hard as I could, trying to overcome a learning diability.

I like to hunt. After baseball, I'll go back and buy some land and do some farming.

To my parents and all the people who reassured me that leaving high school and going into the draft was the right thing to do, I am forever thankful.

I don't ever want to be an average fourth starter. I want to be the big guy.

I can't try to throw 110 miles per hour. I've got to pitch under control.

Now I know that I don't have to go after every batter with the hardest pitch I've got.

Sometimes not much is just enough.

Innocence must die young if it isn't to kill the souls of men

People who look at my painting say that it makes them happy, like the feeling when you wake up in the morning. And happiness is the goal, isn't it?

For the first half of my adult life, I was a Democrat.

There's so much to be afraid of.

When we're deluded there's a world to escape. When we're aware, there's nothing to escape.

I play a lot of charity golf mainly. I'm a bandit 18 if I play two or three times a week.

Vehicular traffic is completely forbidden in the green strips, where tranquility shall reign and the curse of noise shall not penetrate.

Good is a noun rather than an adjective.

Painters tend to ignore the challenges and thrills that sculptors enjoy daily - volume... like the perfect, imperfect voluminous oval of the egg.