People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, when you shake hands.

I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.

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

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.

When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.

I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.

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