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.

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.

I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer.

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.

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

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.