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.'

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.

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

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.

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

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