To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.

You've gotta find a way to get out of your own way, so you can progress in life.

So what I did on the field was the essence of what I am. Remember me like that.

Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.

I trained myself to perform on the field.

The final release point for the fastball is the tips of your fingers.

That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect.

Rooting is following, and I don't do that, but I'd like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia.

I threw all my pitches over the top which was important for me because my slider was hard to tell from my fastball at release.

Everything I was, physically and mentally, that's what I put on that field.

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

The first duty of a man is to think for himself

You can read merely to pass the time, or you can read with an overt urgency, but eventually you will read against the clock.

Not to take one's own suffering seriously, to make light of it or even to laugh at it, is considered good manners in our culture.

Blinking, twinkling, burning brightAre all the stars that light the night.Dippers, Ursa's and Orion too, But don't forget the star in you.

I worry about anthropomorphism as a form of self-deception. (The Christian religion is an anthropomorphic account of the universe.)

No true and permanent fame can be founded, except in labors which promote the happiness of mankind.

The only way to prevent prostitution altogether would be to imprison one half of the human race.

It was like looking at a knot, knowing it was a knot, but not knowing how to untie it. I had no map for this life.

In a world of fugitives the one who stays home will seem to be running away

There is Life in every breath.