I throw the ball ninety-two miles an hour, but they hit it back just as hard.

There are three-hundred thousand sportswriters and they're all against me. Every one of them.

There is one word in America that says it all, and that one word is, 'You never know.

You can sum up the game of baseball in one word: 'You never know.'

How can I play baseball if I'm stupid? If I was stupid I wouldn't have pitched in the World Series. I'd be playing ball in Mexico or Yugoslavia or on Pluto.

I tell you what. 85 percent of the sportswriters think I'm stupid or a clown or something. They think I'm crazy.

I don't know why sportswriters always have to write bad things about Joaquin Andujar.