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.

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.

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.

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

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.

I am here not to let you fall alone, suffocate alone, quit life easy. I'll fight the fate for you and with you.

The irony of life is like a brothel without prostitutes--but don't you worry, prostitutes don't need of a brothel, to exercise their profession.

We journalists make it a point to know very little about an extremely wide variety of topics

Imagination and invention go hand in hand. Remember how lack of resources was never a problem in childhood games? Shift a few pieces of furniture around the living room, and you have yourself a fort.

I love getting stuff, and if I give a present to someone and don't get one back, you can bet your life they won't be getting one next year.

Unfortunately, it happens all too seldom that you really disappear behind a work, that you are no longer audible as an interpreter.

Our task, your task... is to try to connect the dots before something happens. People say, 'Well, where's the smoking gun?' Well, we don't want to see a smoking gun from a weapon of mass destruction.

The story sometimes writes you into a corner.

The single most important top-level trend is the shift to mobile.

Acting is the use of human experience with talent added.