When Steve Carlton and I die, we're gonna be burried 60'6" apart.

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!

I've written for every medium except poetry, at which I suck.

There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.

If the good people in their wisdom shall see fit to keep me in the background, I have been too familiar with disappointments to bevery much chagrined.

In critical moments even the very powerful have need of the weakest.

Dare not usurp thy maker's place by giving way to wrath - wrath that goes forth in vengeance; "vengeance is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord."

The academic mind reflects infinity, and is full of light by the simple process of being shallow and standing still.

It really is considered one of the blessings of previous mates which you could manage being silly with them.

I love the process of making films and an incidental satisfaction is the fact that most of them made money.

You get into an elevator and there's music playing. You hear it, but you're not into it. That is passive.

Karma is the eternal assertion of human freedom. . . . Our thoughts, our words, and deeds are the threads of the net which we throw around ourselves.