The playoffs are the wedge between the season and the World Series. If you lose, it means you won't be going to the greatest sports event in this country...You're forgotten by Thanksgiving.

Bob Gibson is the luckiest pitcher I ever saw. He always pitches when the other team doesn't score any runs.

The reason we call that pitch up and in is because the arms are attached to the shoulder.

Yankee pitchers have had great success this year against Cabrera when they get him out.

That pitch wasn't down and in, that pitch was down and up.

A walk is as good as a home run.

Roy Oswalt is a drop and drive pitcher. What is a drop and drive pitcher? He is a guy who drops and drives. Very simple.

When a catcher has to use his thumb to give signs, that means the pitcher has more than four pitches.

One thing about ground balls: they don't go out of the ballpark.

When Steve and I die, we are going to be buried in the same cemetery, 60-feet 6-inches apart.

I remember one time going out to the mound to talk with Bob Gibson. He told me to get back behind the batter; that the only thing I knew about pitching was that it was hard to hit!

Skill, education, money aren't the difference makers, passion is. If you've passion to achieve something, there's nothing that can stop you.

The wold was full of us, the leftovers and the leavers, the bereaved and the broken.

Who would imagine that I was to be the founder of a new religion.

Always walk out the door ahead of your dog when leaving the house. This will show your dog who is in the leadership role.

I like taking things apart and putting them back together. Tinkering. I'd be a professional tinkerer. Tinkerbell. I think that's what they're called.

The language of [Catholic] mysticism - its repeated attempts to lay consciousness itself bare and speak all the intensely opposing yet interconnected parts of it that cannot be spoken.

As a child I watched Mary Poppins so many times I suffered from a condition with my sight. Umdiddleiddleiddleumdiddle Eye.

You are the light of consciousness and also the witness of this light. You are pure awareness.

That we may consult concerning others, and not others concerning us.