The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.

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.

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.

I continue to make paintings of people and their moments in our time because I am of that time. Out of that I hope to make pictures that are timeless.

Love the moment. Flowers grow out of dark moments. Therefore, each moment is vital. It affects the whole. Life is a succession of such moments and to live each, is to succeed.

He who defends with love will be secure; Heaven will save him, and protect him with love.

I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.

Welsh is an actual, currently used language and our next-door neighbors Angela and Gaenor spoke it. It sounds like Wizard.

I ended up training only for four years before I was accepted into American Ballet Theater in New York City.

The progress of history is to take the impossible and turn it into the possible.

When you're centered, your emotions are not hijacking you.

Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what you already know, and you'll see the way to fly.

All persistent practices in art have a creative function. They may serve several ends, but the chief one is the shaping of the work.