When I throw a curve that hangs and it goes for a hit, I want to chew up my glove.

I hate all hitters. I start a game mad and I stay that way until it's over.

Some of these guys wear beards to make them look intimidating, but they don't look so tough when they have to deliver the ball. Their abilities and their attitudes don't back up their beards.

My own little rule was two for one. If one of my teammates got knocked down, then I knocked down two on the other team.

The pitcher has to find out if the hitter is timid. And if the hitter is timid, he has to remind the hitter he's timid.

Where do you want it?

A torn rotator cuff is a cancer for a pitcher and if a pitcher gets a badly torn one, he has to face the facts, it's all over baby.

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.

The Houston Astros are the youngest team in the National League if you judge by age.

If they knocked two of your guys down, I'd get four. You have to protect your hitters.

It's a bottom line business where a lot of gray suits are brought in and then, within two years, these guys suddenly know everything about baseball.

Think and unfold the beauty of your mind.

The wealth that we acquire with God’s help will not become a source of tears if it belongs to God.

Storytelling is powerful when creating a vision to your dreams. It's impactful when you inspire others by your integrity and by the promises delivered

In war as in life it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed to take up the best alternative open and if so it is folly not to work for it with all your might.

All education in a country has got to be demonstrably in promotion of the progress of the country in which it is given.

Being the first to go to college in my family was a great thing, but it was also a source of guilt. I felt like almost a sellout going to college.

There's nothing more exciting than to watch a story break and grow, and to be the first one to present it to the world.

But once you strip that down, you realize it's all about a voice, like a Norah Jones - that's inspiring to me.

I have balls the size of grapefruits and come this Sunday, you'll be spitting out the seeds.

What I like about the Order of the Garter is that there is no damned merit about it.