I think it's incredible because there were guys like (Willie) Mays and (Mickey) Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.

I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.

People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.

I can't picture people talking about me 50 years from now.

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

It's better to throw a theoretically poorer pitch whole-heartedly, than to throw the so-called right pitch with feeling of doubt-doubt that's it's right, or doubt that you can make it behave well at that moment. You've got to feel sure you're doing the right thing-sure that you want to throw the pitch you're going to throw.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.