The only urgency that I ever had was when my mom was alive. She died last year in September of 2006. She was my number one fan and she always said I'd love to see you go into the Hall of Fame. That was the only urgency that I ever had that I wish if I was going to go into the Hall of Fame that certainly it would've happen when she was around, but it didn't and now that she's passed.

These messages that we are sending our kids and the kind of lives people lead today so superficial it seems, just a lot of phony stuff. What does it mean when you really stop and think about it's kind of stupid.

Some of my greatest memories were on a little league field. We didn't even have any uniforms.

I had set the standard for my style of relief pitching so high that when I came back to the rest of the pack, everybody said I was done.

I think that Jim Rice should be in the Hall of Fame. I think that Craig Nettles should be in the Hall of Fame and he didn't even get a sniff.

I was brought into situations God couldn't get out of, and I got out of them.

In my opinion, the best setup guys now have a tougher job than the closers. They pitch more innings, inherit more runners.