You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches

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.

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.

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.

You are not for everybody, but you are for somebody.

Are your habits and hygiene hindering your success or making a great first impression on your behalf?

I have these new policies toward my life, like 'I will not accelerate when I see the yellow light.'

The saddest life is that of a political aspirant under democracy. His failure is ignominious and his success is disgraceful.

Americans who feel the most ignored these days are not the screamers. They are the solid citizens who are sick to death of pols who play to the rant.

I feel like a visitor just about everywhere.

Let us not compare the genius with the clever; ocean with the lake!

No one is obliged to be a genius, but everyone is obliged to participate.

The first casualty of war is innocence.

Poetry has to be something more than a conception of the mind. It has to be a revelation of nature. Conceptions are artificial. Perceptions are essential.