The future is much like the present, only longer.

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.

Know thyself.

The Rainbow is a promise

You business exist because your customers allow you to exist. Never forget it.

In every generation the number of the righteous is small. Be sure you are among them.

Love with men is not a sentiment, but an idea.

Can true repentance exist without faith? By no means. But although they cannot be separated, they ought to be distinguished.

The self is not something ready-made, but something in continuous formation through choice of action.

None of it meant anything, and all of it was important.

The thing about nightmares was that you couldn't prepare for them. They sneaked up on you when you were most vulnerable.

Giving Love to Others is Directly Related to How Much Love you Have for Yourself!