My first year in the big leagues, I made $17,000. It was easy to go out and get another $17,000 relief pitcher. I never worried about innings or pitches. I just pitched.

I could throw pretty hard. I might strike out 16 guys, but I might walk 10. I mean, I was wild.

When I played, I never needed the spotlight, nor did I want it. I simply wanted to play baseball and be respected by my teammates and the opposing players.

The three most important pitches I threw in my life were all fastballs.

I'm basically a country person.

Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.

Understand that nothing happensunless it is God's will anddo what you like.What can be simpler than that?

We must remember that the test of our religious principles lies not just in what we say, not only in our prayers, not even in living blameless lives - but in what we do for others

I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

It's not so much about the cause, it's about feeling superior to political opponents.

They almost had to cancel the Oscars tonight because all of the designers and stylists are still in line in San Francisco trying to marry one another.

I came to Houston for a job, the reason most people move halfway across the country with a first grader and a five-week-old. I came here to teach at Rice.

Heroes are people who are all good with no bad in them. That's the way I always saw Joe DiMaggio. He was beyond question one of the greatest players of the century.

Im not a perfect Muslim; I think none of us are perfect human beings. I do the five pillars of Islam, you know, I pray five times a day.

When you don't have much and you need to be at work, there's no such thing as being sick.

I grew up in northern California in a town called Fairfield, which is kind of exactly between San Francisco and Sacramento, a small suburb. And I'm the youngest of five children.