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

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.

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.

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.

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.

Wrapped in a mother’s love is the most beautiful and safest place on earth for a child.

To live a lie may allow us to avoid the truth, but the real lie lays in believing that we can avoid the truth in the first place.

The only time you must not fail is the last time you try

So this is what you look like when you're keeping a giant secret from me - exactly the same as usual.

Supporting myself at an early age was the best training for life I could have possibly received.

In New York City, everyone is an exile, none more so than the Americans.

One always starts work with the subject, no matter how tenuous it is, and one constructs an artificial structure by which one can trap the reality of the subject-matter that one has started from.

I love cats. I have a lot of cat tales, ha ha, so to speak. A lot of my cats come to me. They show up at my house. I'm kind of a cat lady that way.

The patriarchy is alive and well in Egypt and the wider Arab world.

For a small investment today we could be creating something that our grandchildren will thank us for