The future is much like the present, only longer.

The future is much like the present, only longer.

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.'

He (Ted Simmons) didn't sound like a baseball player. He said things like 'nevertheless' and 'if, in fact.

I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.

Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.