Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.

Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers.

A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.

I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer.

It helps to be stupid if you're a relief pitcher. Relievers had to get into a zone of their own. I just hope I'm stupid enough.

Strikes (1981) are real life. It took up seven weeks of real time. That's a fifth of a pregnancy.

I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.

Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.

Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

The problem is not that you have problems the problem is that you see having problems as a problem.

It's impossible to love yourself unconditionally without frequently making some time to know yourself better.

If you're straight with your players, they'll be straight with you.

All that [replacing of fat] does is lead to dissatisfaction and I think that dissatisfaction results in overeating.

A boil on a man's neck is more important to him than 40 floods in India

We must achieve both security and solvency. In fact, the foundation of military strength is economic strength.

Love is when you have a really amazing piece of cake, and it’s the very last piece, but you let him have it.

The answer is always in the entire story, not a piece of it.

The violence and sexuality on TV today is exhilarating. You can explore every aspect of society. People's sexual orientations, the violence that goes within that... there are no holds barred.

I am still on stage. If you read Press...you would believe that I should be gone. But here I am doing it and DOING IT WELL!