I don't know if cortisone is good for you or not. But to take a shot every other ball game is more than I wanted to do and to walk around with a constant upset stomach because of the pills and to be high half the time during a ball game because you're taking painkillers ... I don't want to have to do that.

If I could straighten it out (his golf swing), I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight.

He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another.

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.

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

If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.