When I'm in Boston, I always feel like I'm home. I almost cry, I feel so good.

Family is everything. It is even more important than baseball.

I give him (Frank Howard during April 28, 1968 two-hitter) shoulder, back, foot and the ball last," and Frank Howard commented, "He threw everything at me but the ball.

If we lose today, it will be over my dead body. They'll have to leave me face down on the mound.

The fastball is the best pitch in baseball. It's like having five pitches, if you move it around.

I had dreamed about being a college coach for a long time, but with no education, I never thought I would get a chance.

I didn't do it (pitch like he did) for show. I did it to get batters out. Players would tell me, 'We can't tell where the ball is coming from.'

The presidency is temporary-but the family is permanent.

The race to which we belong is the most arrogant and rapacious the most exclusive and indomitable in history. All other races have been its enemies or its victims.

It's actually good when the performers are nervous, because it kind of sharpens up your brain and a little bit of adrenaline is good. Initially it's really tough.

History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.

What I'm saying is America has a job deficit because hundreds of thousands of jobs went elsewhere. Not because [Barack] Obama raised your taxes. He, in fact, lowered them. They are lower.

But I think beautiful is simple and elegant, like a ballad with simple harmony.

I don't like getting up early in the morning and learning all that stuff. I work with offers that I can't refuse.

If your cat falls out of a tree, go indoors to laugh.

Humans who spend time in the wilderness, alone, without man-made mechanical noise around them, often discover that their brain begins to recover its ability to discern things.

When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.