Where do you want it?

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.

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

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.

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.

When an old truth ceases to be applicable, it does not become any truer by being stood on its head.

Truth is stranger than fiction because lies are much more convincing but the truth always comes out no matter how long it takes.

Paradoxes are conflicting choices or conditions that demand equal attention.

I'm in love with my work

We need more true mystery in our lives Hem- he said. The completely unambitious writer and the really good unpublished poem are the things we lack most. There is of course the problem of sustenance

It may be over but it won't stop there, I am here for you if you'd only care

If you don't have a burning passion for writing, how can you expect anyone else to be moved by what you write?

If you're not living your truth, you're living a lie.

The best criticism of the bad is the practice of the better.

The danger of what's happening right now in terms of using reconciliation is, the purpose of the Senate is going to be defeated. And that is to bring consensus to big issues in this country.