I keep telling myself, don't get cocky. Give your services to the press and the media, be nice to the kids, throw a baseball into the stands once in a while.

It's a weird scene. You win a few baseball games and all of a sudden you're surrounded by reporters and TV men with cameras asking you about Vietnam and race relations.

Catfish Hunter was a man among men. He was a genuine person. There was nothing phony about him. I learned a lot from him, both on and off the baseball field.

Sometimes in this game its as good to be lucky as it is to be good.

It's easy, man. I just take the ball and throw. Hard! It's a God-given talent! No one can teach it to you. They either hit it or they don't.

I think I have signed some scrap of paper for every man, woman and child in the United States. What do they do with all those scraps of paper with my signature on it?

Charlie Finley has soured my stomach for baseball. He treated me like a damn colored boy.

Catholicism isn't a religion, it's a nationality.

The idea of goodies and baddies has always fascinated me, and what people consider to be a goodie or a baddie, because I've never seen any of my characters as baddies.

If someone does not smile at you, be generous and offer your own smile. Nobody needs a smile more than the one that cannot smile to others.

I belong to the Democratic Party.

The question is simply,'Who is your master?'Once that's settled, you ask whether any word have been spoken. If it has, you have your orders.

Answers can suit the relative mind. In the dream we can be thirsty. But upon awaking from the dream, there's no thirst.

Think small and act small, and we'll get bigger. Think big and act big, and we'll get smaller.

But the unfaithful priest, what tongue Enough, shall execrate?

I look at the deejay thing as something - I'm good at it because I have my own music. I have enough rhythm to blend at this point.