A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.

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

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.

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

It helps to be stupid if you're a relief pitcher. Relievers had to get into a zone of their own. I just hope I'm stupid enough.

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

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.