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

When I came over here (the National League), I always heard it was a stronger league, with amphetamines all over the clubhouse, but all I found was Michelob Dry.

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

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.

They're (California Angels) like the American League All-Star team, and that's their problem, the American League All-Star team always loses.

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