"It took me a few years to realize that throwing harder wasn't always better."

"But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate."

"Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it."

"I think today the players are too nice to one another, but that might change with the unbalanced schedule, with teams playing each other more and more. When you face each other that much, with that much at stake, something's bound to happen."

"As the blessings of health and fortune have a beginning, so they must also find an end. Everything rises but to fall, and increases but to decay."

"You had to be into sport and, sad to say, I'm a traitor to my country because I don't have a sporting bone in my body."

"You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content."

"The emotional, sexual, and psychological stereotyping of females begins when the doctor says: It's a girl."