You have to have a short memory as a closer.

The way we're going... if I called up another pitcher, he'd just hang up the phone on me.

The baselines belongs to the runner, and whenever I was running the bases, I always slid hard. I wanted infielders to have that instant's hesitation about coming across the bag at second or about standing in there awaiting a throw to make a tag. There are only 27 outs in a ballgame, and it was my job to save one for my team every time I possibly could.

Be anything you want to be, but don't be dull.

I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.

Probably the most dramatic change in pitching I've observed in my years in baseball has been the disappearance of the knockdown or brushback pitch. This is why record numbers of home runs are flying out of ballparks, why earned run averages are soaring, and why there are so few twenty game winners in the majors.

If the guys on the bench were as good as the guys you have out there, they'd be out there in first place.