He (Ted Simmons) didn't sound like a baseball player. He said things like 'nevertheless' and 'if, in fact.

Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers.

A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.

I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer.

Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.

It helps to be stupid if you're a relief pitcher. Relievers had to get into a zone of their own. I just hope I'm stupid enough.

Strikes (1981) are real life. It took up seven weeks of real time. That's a fifth of a pregnancy.

I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.

Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.

Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

Are you insinuatin' that my daughter is a liar?""Oh, no, not at all. I'm saying your daughter is a liar. Surely you can appreciate the difference.

Remember your connection with the cosmos. Remember your connection with the infinity and that remembrance will give you the freedom.

May God continue to give us strength for our daily work.

Since the future is unknown, nobody can really know where he is going! When asked, tell them you know not where you are going! You can only say where you wish to go!

Don't let yesterday’s storm keep you from enjoying today's sunshine.

There's going to be a Halloween costume [of lavash from Sausage Party]. The whole thing is just so ridiculous. It's nice. It's silly, and it's surreal.

It's funny the things you think you're scared of until they're upon you, and then you're not.

I did a study of soldiers returning from Iraq, and their levels of PTSD were much higher if they had had to shoot a woman or child, even if they knew the person was a suicide bomber.

I don't focus on happiness as a goal or an end.