We charted individual pitches by hand, so I had that data from game to game, but from year to year, I didn't really have that data, because a lot of times it was discarded.

I like to think of the world's greatest athlete coming up to bat against me - Tiger Woods, Wayne Gretzky, I don't care who it is - and I'm looking at him thinking, you have no chance.

I can't remember a major league game where I could make eye contact with my dad. I kept wondering if he was going to yell at me for hanging a pitch or something.

Im a finesse pitcher without the finesse.

I have far too many skeletons in my closet to think about any sort of serious mention of public office.

Today baseball is currently enjoying a run of more than 14 years without interruption, a record that would have been inconceivable in the 1990s.

I was a professional baseball player from the time I was drafted out of high school in 1981 until the time I retired in 2003.

A major league pitching coach is a really difficult job. It takes a big commitment in terms of time, travel and workload.

I love being out there on the mound with the ball in my hand. I can control the game. I'm out there. No clock - nothing happens until I throw that thing. Nothing happens. I love that feeling.

I have a future and I have a mind and I have things to look forward to,' but to me it's just about..I love to pitch so much.

At nighttime, you just try to keep him out of jail.

Jiu Jitsu uses us to express itself, and the best thing we can do to is to become a vehicle capable of expressing Jiu Jitsu with all of its perfection minus our imperfections.

There's a lot to be said for being alone. But you and I know, don't we, Flavia, that being alone and being lonely are not at all the same thing?

The well-meaning contention that all ideas have equal merit seems to me little different from the disastrous contention that no ideas have any merit.

If there is a virtue in the world at which we should always aim, it is cheerfulness.

One errs as long as one strives.

Write about the thing that frightens you most.

I'm many things: I'm a convicted rapist, I'm a hell-raiser, I'm a father, a loving father. I'm a semi-good husband...I'm pretty much a tyrant-titan.

Why do I need I.D. to get I.D.? If I had I.D. I wouldn't need I.D.

Ability is active power, or power to perform.

Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.