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

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.

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.

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

There is beauty in thinking independently.

I have seen the greatest artists and the most eccentric divas in music. The greater and more visionary they were, the more self-reflexive and childlike they behaved.

A few names have survived oblivion. In time, oblivion will have them all.

Your defense will save you on the nights that your offense isn't working.

A lot of me figuring out how to love myself more involves finding the things that I'm ashamed of and looking them right in the eye.

Family can replace everything. So, before starting a family, one should think what's more important: family or everything.

To come to change, there had to be conflict and pain.

There is nothing more frustrating than a good example.

Unless I am very much mistaken...I AM very much mistaken...!

I would say the biggest difference is that a movie is a shorter, more encapsulated experience, and a TV job is like having a regular day job where you get to do what you love.