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.'

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

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

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

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.

The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.

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.