If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.

He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another.

Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.

The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.

I can't picture people talking about me 50 years from now.

If I could straighten it out (his golf swing), I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight.

I think it's incredible because there were guys like (Willie) Mays and (Mickey) Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.

Nobody is paying attention to the fact that first of all, a man has to build himself and become a personality

Duties are what make life most worth living. Lacking them you are not necessary to anyone.

When I was learning to creep, my mother set me down on the beach to see what I thought of it. I crawled straight for the coming wave and was just through the wall of green when she caught my heels.

A finite world can support only a finite population; therefore, population growth must eventually equal zero.

President Bush said global warming is happening much quicker than he thought, and then his staff pulled him aside and said 'It's just springtime.'

Culture is worth a little risk.

The best thing we're put here for's to see; The strongest thing that's given us to see with's a telescope. Someone in every town, seems to me, owes it to the town to keep one.

A photograph is a photograph, a picture, an image, an illusion complete within itself, depending neither on words, reproductive processes or anything else for its life, its reason for being.

Habit is overcome by habit. [Lat., Consuetudo consuetudine vincitur.]

The day before yesterday has always been a day of glamor, of gilt and glory. The present is sordid and prosaic. Time colors history as it does a meerschaum pipe.