They're (California Angels) like the American League All-Star team, and that's their problem, the American League All-Star team always loses.

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.

In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed, ' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.

Give and receive

It is necessary to look forward to a harvest, however distant that may be, when some fruit will be reaped, some good effected.

Each moment cancels the last. In the end there is nothing, not even the end.

Pray always pray when sickness wastes thy frame Prayer brings the healing power of Jesus' name.

San Francisco would be a good location for a murder mystery.

A good indication that it's not is if you're only staying with What's His Name because you're scared.

Hypocrisy is the characteristic feature of the dying bourgeois epoch.

I find American behaviour...odd

How you handle life depends a lot on how you handle plan B, or if you have a plan B.