I also think that I had great mechanics.

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

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

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.

You can learn from mistakes only when you realize you made one.

Without duty life is soft and boneless it cannot hold itself together.

A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.

I try to be careful not to do single concerts where I fly out, do my show, turn around and go home.

Never write an advertisement which you wouldn't want your own family to read. You wouldn't tell lies to your own wife. Don't tell them to mine. Do as you would be done by.

...we’re just kids growing up on an island, doing bad things in pretty places.

I think I'm very fortunate to be born in America. And lucky to be able to have lived and had the opportunity to do what I want to do.

When we turn the mind inwards, God manifests as the inner consciousness.

If you can learn to use your mind as well as your powder puff, you will become more truly beautiful.

Don't diddle the dose. Once you have done your homework, go for it.