I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down

I think today the players are too nice to one another, but that might change with the unbalanced schedule, with teams playing each other more and more. When you face each other that much, with that much at stake, something's bound to happen.

The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches

My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important