The future is much like the present, only longer.

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

I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.

Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.

Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

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

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.