People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands.

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 also think that I had great mechanics.

My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important

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.

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.

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down