If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters.

I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it's over.

Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards.

My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.

When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove.

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

Where do you want it?

A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby.

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.

The Houston Astros are the youngest team in the National League if you judge by age.

It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball.

Everything you know is a story. That’s how human consciousness works.

Don't let other people decide who you are.

It is a sadness of growing older that some of us lose our ardent appreciation of what is new and different and difficult.

All life is part of a complex relationship in which each is dependent upon the others, taking from, giving to and living with all the rest.

The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.

The latest twist on the pampering concept is spa parties, where a group of friends take over an entire spa.

The Liberty of the press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

Penalties serve to deter those who are not inclined to commit any crimes.

When we allow freedom ring, when we let it ring from every village and every hamlet, from every state and every city...

Be not merely a man of letters! Let literature be an honorable augmentations to your arms, not constitute the coat or fill the escutcheon!