I'm basically a country person.

I could throw pretty hard. I might strike out 16 guys, but I might walk 10. I mean, I was wild.

When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.

The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.

My first year in the big leagues, I made $17,000. It was easy to go out and get another $17,000 relief pitcher. I never worried about innings or pitches. I just pitched.

Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.

Boxes of religion I avoid as I embrace the freedom that Christ gave me at great cost upon the cross

Oh! if to dance all night, and dress all day, Charm'd the small-pox, or chas'd old age away; . . . . To patch, nay ogle, might become a saint, Nor could it sure be such a sin to paint.

A nation is formed by the willingness of each of us to share in the responsibility for upholding the common good.

Number one, I absolutely love making chocolate chip cookies. I mean, it's fun. It's exciting. Beyond the fact that I love making them, I love eating them.

My only sketch, profile, of Heaven is a large blue sky, and larger than the biggest I have seen in June - and in it are my friends - every one of them.

Our responding to life's unfairness with sympathy... may be the surest proof of all of God's reality.

She felt as if she were brimming, always producing and hoarding more love inside her. But there was no release.

Perhaps the best known, and certainly the most vaunted, "discovery" of modern public opinion research is the indifference and ignorance of a majority of the electorate in western democracies.

God is more truly imagined than expressed, and He exists more truly than He is imagined.

Mr. President, the only thing that stops a bad guy with a nuke is a good guy with a nuke.