You're only as smart as your ERA.

If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.

For a hundred years, the owners screwed the players. For 25 years, the players have screwed the owners-they've got 75 years to go.

After I won 21 games, I said, "This isn't that hard actually. I can do this every year for maybe 10, 15 years." To tell you the truth I thought I was going to be in the Hall of Fame. I really thought that. You feel so strong, so powerful walking down the street. You know you can throw a ball harder than any man in the world, or certainly the top five. Sandy Koufax knocked all of us out of the box on that one, so we would think, "I'm the second or third hardest thrower in the game."

A lot of long relievers are ashamed to tell their parents what they do. The only nice thing about it is that you get to wear a uniform like everbody else.

You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.

We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.