I don't feel any pressure. I just try to stay calm, follow my game plan, and try not to get overthrown.

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.

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

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.

Do you think it not lawful for me to teach women and why do you call me to teach the court?

English clubs are very exclusive. I played Royal Foxshire and they made me wear a suit and tie. . . in the shower.

The only causes of regret are laziness, outbursts of temper, hurting others, prejudice, jealousy, and envy.

Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.

You cannot build a little guy up by tearing a big guy down. Abraham Lincoln said it...

I love doing sitcoms and I love performing in front of a live audience, so [Payne] was a really fun experience.

Look at government programs for the past fifty years. Every single one - except warfare - achieved the exact opposite of its announced goal.

I play any piano with a good tune.

So I had this problem -- work or starve. So I thought I'd combine the two and decided to become a writer.

It's good to find common ground with people. When you find common ground and you see things from other people's perspective, you can have a voice in their lives, you can have an influence.