It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times.

All I'm asking for is what I want.

I'm disappointed about how my career ended.

When you're a kid, you want to be a millionaire.

I can't find a job. It makes me crazy.

I don't think I ever got proper credit about being smart about the game.

You never had the opportunity to play with some of the great ballplayers, but being that close around them, and being in the same category, was a great feeling, to feel that vibe of all the best players who played the game.