Well, David Eckstein, like most of us, has 20 digits. Ten fingers. Ten toes.

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!

Fennel, which is the spice for Wednesdays, the day of averages, of middle-aged people. . . . Fennel . . . smelling of changes to come.

To understand is to forgive.

We all cross a hundred peaks to get even this far. And there will be more before we each make it to whatever God has fated for us.

I think what we need to do is to have an immigration system where legal immigration is easier.

Along this road of spending, the government either takes over, which is Socialism, or dictates institutional and economic life, which is Fascism.

Wine displays every little spot of the soul in its utmost deformity.

The hardest problems of pure and applied science can only be solved by the open collaboration of the world-wide scientific community.

I've always been able to let stuff go when I'm done with work.

If you don't ever stop singing, your voice stays in shape. It's like the marathon runner. You've got to run, run, run to stay in shape.

Catsuits were big for me in the '90s, and I had many of them. Even catsuits with shorts in them.