It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of men is measured. There's a Mennonite proverb, 'Man, like a tree, is measured best when cut down.'

It helps to be stupid if you're a relief pitcher. Relievers had to get into a zone of their own. I just hope I'm stupid enough.

The future is much like the present, only longer.

Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers.

I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer.

It (his contract) has options through the year 2020 or until the last Rocky movie is made.

Strikes (1981) are real life. It took up seven weeks of real time. That's a fifth of a pregnancy.