He makes it look easy. You wish there was another league he could get called up to.

If you can get an out on one pitch, take it. Let the strikeouts come on the outstanding pitches. Winning is the big thing. If you throw a lot of pitches, before you know it, your arm is gone.

When I went back to Shea last year it really hit me how much the fans care for me, it still gives me goose bumps. I want to do the right thing for them and my family.

I've done enough wrong on my own, I don't want to get blamed for something I didn't do.

My first year in baseball, there were only one or two reporters. My second year, I got to the Triple-A playoffs, there were four or five. When I came up in 1984, I never saw so many people.

My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad.

Plus, when you get in tough situations, like the bases loaded and nobody out, you never give in.

I'm glad I don't have to face that guy (Don Mattingly) every day. He has that look that few hitters have. I don't know if it's his stance, his eyes or what, but you can tell he means business.

You got the ball in your hands and you're in command, and if you get your good pitch where you want it, nobody's gonna hit you.

The day I pitched, I would drink either 'cause I was celebrating or I lost and couldn't sleep.

I love the fans and I appreciate how much they care for me.

War makes monsters of us all. But what happens to those of us who no longer wish to be monsters?

We didn't belong anywhere in particular any more. We were interchangeable parts in the American machine.

Great faith it needs, according to my view, To trust in that which never could be true.

TEACHER seeks pupil. Must have an earnest desire to save the world. Apply in person.

That space between the white lines - that's my office. That's where I conduct my business.

As I mentioned, I was a carpenter for a time.

TV holds a close second to cars for destroying our society. It's a failed experiment.

Film seems to be a medium designed for betrayal and violence.

Ego is a social fiction for which one person at a time gets all the blame.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.