They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.

The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down

But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.

I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team.

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears

My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important

I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.

People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands.

When I'm on television, I think that I appeal to the everyday guy, 'cause that's who I am. The guys who go to the football games on the weekends are my viewers, for sure.

Neither a state nor a bank ever have had unrestricted power of issuing paper money without abusing that power.

A year ago, I turned the final page of The Book of the Dead. I don't feel young any more.

We only serve as a model for the portrait of our fame.

Man is what he wills himself to be.

The truly brave are soft of heart and eyes, and feel for what their duty bids them do.

Ann Taylor - great name, great real estate, shitty business. Gap -great name, great real estate, declining business. J.Crew - Hellooo? Great name, better fashion image than the Gap.

In life, the only thing of importance is a radical, total, and definitive change. The rest, frankly, is of no importance at all.

Better to have tried and failed than to have never tried at all. Whoever came up with that phrase I wanted his greasy head on a silver platt

The most important thing is to have a more open and honest dialogue about gender issues.