I love the fans and I appreciate how much they care for me.

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.

Good isn't obsessed to win ButBad is destined to lose

Science have imagination, most people doubt about that. This word "Doubt" makes a lot of stuff interesting.

When the weather's rough and it's whiskey in the rain it's best to wrap your savior up in cellophane.

I truly don't believe in regret.

The demon of pride was born with us; and it will not die one hour before us.

I think people find it weird that I have a lot of long antique-lace dresses that I wear with boots.

I think the good Lord is a Yankee.

The central conception of Man in the Gospels is that he is an unfinished creation capable of reaching a higher level by a definite evolution which must begin by his own efforts.

It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it's too late to ask what it was.

I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.