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.

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.

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.

When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove.

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.

What fearful shapes and shadows beset his path amidst the dim and ghastly glare of a snowy night!

If you want to be happy, be so.

When I was a younger actor, I was very immersed in it, very "method" and all that. Now, I don't give a hoot.

The temptation to quit will be greatest just before you are about to succeed.

Travel is wonderful. Everyone thinks it's wonderful.

Sadness is an opportunity; a good opportunity to learn the real life!

I am constantly amazed at their support over the years.

I say thank God for government waste. If government is doing bad things, it's only the waste that prevents the harm from being greater.

Women think of being a man as a gift. It is a duty. Even making love can be a duty. A man has always got to get it up, and love isn't always enough.

The war in Vietnam I thought a dreadful mistake.