When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team.

The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down

But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.

I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears

My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important

I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.

People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands.

We may be focused on looking forward and upward yet looking inward can be the easiest path to take.

Do your job and demand your compensation - but in that order.

Missionaries are perfect nuisances and leave every place worse than they found it.

A habit is something you can do without thinking - which is why most of us have so many of them.

Put not your trust in new leaders, better systems, new organisations or regulatory reorganisation. They may well be good and necessary, but will to some degree fail.

I've been to a lot of photo shoots and I see these girls that are just really thin. They're not healthy. They don't work out.

The corruption of the best is the worst.

The methods of theoretical physics should be applicable to all those branches of thought in which the essential features are expressible with numbers.

I realised that conforming didn't accomplish anything. Do your own thing. As long as you learn that, you're cool.

Fear is the foe of the faddist, but the friend of the fundamentalist.