I'd like to be remembered for the way I went about doing my job.

Every life lesson is on that baseball field.

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.

Hitting in a game is no different than hitting in a home run contest. It pisses me off to say Barry Bonds is the greatest hitter. He's playing in a wussy era. The game is soft. You never get thrown at today. Last thing a hitter has to worry about today is getting hit. The first thing Hank Aaron had to worry about is: Am I going to survive this at-bat because I'm black.

Hitters never showed me up, as hard as I threw. And I was pretty mean out on the mound.

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

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.