If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.

In baseball, my theory is to strive for consistency, not to worry about the numbers. If you dwell on statistics you get shortsighted; if you aim for consistency, the numbers will be there at the end.

Fenway is the essence of baseball

A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game that they did when they were Little Leaguers.

God is living in New York, and he's a Mets fan.

If you don't think baseball is a big deal, don't do it. But if you do, do it right.

The concentration and dedication- the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who lost.

There are only two places in this league, First Place and No Place.

Im a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.

My pitch count as a general rule was 135. And I knew how many pitches I had when I went to the mound for the last three innings.

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

It's way too easy to get used to losing, it does something small to you.

When both sides of a controversy revel in the defeat and humiliation of the other side, in fact they are on the same side: the side of war.

As a kid I was enamored with fiction, most of it utterly forgettable and long forgotten.

Everyone really does have a place and a purpose and a need.

People think that the ocean is big enough to sustain anything we throw at it - its hard to get into your head that it's actually finite.

In smart society men are jealous of one another after the fashion of women.

But our system of regulation must keep up with this. If it fails to keep up, it will hold back economic expansion. We need financial market regulation that works at national and European level.

This particular school of Zen has always considered itself the Marines of the spiritual world, so it has a kind of bias against conceptual thinking in favor of a very rigorous physical life.

History is the arbiter of controversy, the monarch of all she surveys.

I was always a lover of soft-winged things.