You have to have a short memory as a closer.

I know a lot of people on the field - players, coaches, managers - are glad that I'm gone.

Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up.

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.

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