Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, we don't stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing.

Sometimes I sit and think and other times I just sit.

I used to feel so bad before I got to the clubhouse, I didn't know what to do. But when I put that ballsuit on, I don't know where I got the spark to save my life.

If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

I never rush myself. See, they can't start the game without me.

It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.

Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.