In many ways, it is easier to hit a pitcher when he is wild.

Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.

The reason we call that pitch up and in is because the arms are attached to the shoulder.

Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.

That pitch wasn't down and in, that pitch was down and up.

A walk is as good as a home run.

Roy Oswalt is a drop and drive pitcher. What is a drop and drive pitcher? He is a guy who drops and drives. Very simple.

When a catcher has to use his thumb to give signs, that means the pitcher has more than four pitches.

One thing about ground balls: they don't go out of the ballpark.

When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.

I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit!

Eh, brother, but nature has to be corrected and guided, otherwise we'd all drown in prejudices. Without that there wouldn't be even a single great man.

Our stomachs live in towns, " said Mma Potokwani, patting the front of her dress. 'That is where the work is. Our stomachs know that. But our hearts are usually somewhere else.

Peace is a necessary condition of spirituality, no less than an inevitable result of it.

I did my first apprenticeship when I was 15, then joined the union when I was 17. I worked every summer in high school and college.

We are never so easily deceived as when we imagine we are deceiving others.

If I still lived in Russia, I'd be dead... or a really effective oligarch.

We should thank God for beer and burgundy by not drinking too much of them.

When I hear the Spice Girls, yeah, all that '90s stuff, like Limp Bizkit. Dandy Warhols! Whenever I hear them, it takes me right back, because they were friends of the channel, too.

Socrates reminds us that it is not the same thing, but almost the opposite, to understand religion and to accept it.

We were far more civilized in our divorce than we had ever been in marriage. It seemed we'd finally found something we could do together amicably.