My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important

The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down

But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.

I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.

When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team.

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears

I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.

People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands.

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities.

For the music to be over so soon. For the music to be over when it had just begun. That was really sad.

A practical girl never pines; she takes action.

I think anybody who has been in the theater, prefers it. Television is a... factory. You turn out things on a revolving assembly line. You don't have time to perfect anything in television.

A recurring theme in the literature of secular humanism is the harsh assault upon traditional religion, especially Christianity.

There are only two kinds of certain knowledge: Awareness of our own existence and the truths of mathematics.

There are no explanations, there are no answers.

My grandmother told me that every good thing I do helps some human being in the world. I believed her 50 years ago and still do.

The frenzy of the little-girl culture is something very unique, and I can only say that because I was one. The obsession - I can't really explain it. Everything is heightened to the maximum.

It is pretty obvious that the debasement of the human mind caused by a constant flow of fraudulent advertising is no trivial thing. There is more than one way to conquer a country