Good mothers are underrated, just like good defense.

Every season has its peaks and valleys. What you have to try to do is eliminate the Grand Canyon.

With the Cardinals everybody would be reading the business section to see what their stocks were doing. You get to this locker room (Pirates) in the morning and everybody is looking at the sports page to see if Hulk Hogan won.

I don't care what you do - baseball or politics - George W. Bush is always going to be compared to his father. I just want it to be an easy answer in 50 years - Who was the better player, me, or my kids? I want it to be my kids.

I can only guess that, for guys in their 30s and 40s who watched me play, they understood that the score never mattered and my paycheck never mattered (in relation) to how I played. I played with Little League enthusiasm and professional flair. That's what fans are really looking for.

Who says there's an unemployment problem in this country? Just take the five percent unemployed and give them a baseball stat to follow.

If everyone were like him (Mitch Williams) I wouldn't play. I'd find a safer way to make a living.