I don't want to pitch forever.

Ever since I was a little kid, I was competitive.

I don't just think regular season. I think playoffs. World Series. That's how I think.

If you don't control your emotions, your emotions will control your acts, and that's not good.

I never give up. If you beat me, you have to beat me one, three, four, five times, and I still don't give up.

Don't worry about what the people say; be yourself, say what you want to say WITH respect.

I have nothing to ask for, thanks to God. Everything I have, God has given me.

I see the hitter when he's moved in the box, like when he's moved closer to the plate or changed his stance. I see when the batter has moved his feet, and then I make my own adjustment.

Baseball was just the avenue that the Lord used so I can provide for my family.

I think the good Lord is a Yankee.

Every time before I throw my first pitch, I am praying. And not only that, in the bullpen I am praying.

You will trust God to the degree you know you are loved by Him.

Between thinking and seeing, there is a place called knowing.

I don't mean to sound like a cheap prostitute, but you can call me what you like.

Learning is discovering that somethinkg is possible.

Hope is the only good thing that disillusion respects.

The reading of tourist prospectuses is one of the joys of the world -- it is like operetta in prose -- all so flowery and heavenlike.

He who wisheth to enter Paradise at the best door must please his father and mother.

I was sort of the class-clown type, and I was also in school plays, and I always liked comedy.

Would America have been America without her Negro people?