The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don`t have to ask anyone or play politics. You don`t have to wait for the reviews.
Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
I`ve got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.
People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.
Show me a guy who can`t pitch inside and I`ll show you a loser.
I think it`s incredible because there were guys like Mays and Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.
If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.
A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that`s the definition of a good pitcher.
I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do.