I think the changeup has become more popular recently by pitchers like Pedro Martinez and the success he had with it.

I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance.

I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something.

Im a finesse pitcher without the finesse.

I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.

Today baseball is currently enjoying a run of more than 14 years without interruption, a record that would have been inconceivable in the 1990s.

We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn't really have that data, because a lot of times it was discarded.

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

I love being out there on the mound with the ball in my hand. I can control the game. I'm out there. No clock - nothing happens until I throw that thing. Nothing happens. I love that feeling.

I have a future and I have a mind and I have things to look forward to,' but to me it's just about..I love to pitch so much.

Pity me that the heart is slow to learnWhat the swift mind beholds at every turn.

I believe that women have a capacity for understanding and compassion which a man structurally does not have, does not have it because he cannot have it. He's just incapable of it.

Magic's an art where you use slight of hand or illusion to create wonder. And I was just intrigued with that idea.

The symbol and the metaphor are as necessary to science as to poetry.

He must have smiled at me, though I don't really know, but I don't like to think that I would love someone who hadn't first smiled at me.

To be good to yourself ... Sometimes it seems that takes a special talent all its own.

A little insomnia is not without its value in making us appreciate sleep, in throwing a ray of light upon that darkness.

I'd rather meet Spider-man than some creator that would put me in real awe!

The worship of God....should be free at table, in private rooms, downstairs, upstairs, at home, abroad, in all places, by all peoples, at all times

Comedy is not pretty.