I would like to be a great artist. I would quit pitching if I could paint like Monet or Rousseau. But I cant. What I can do is pitch, and I can do that very well.

Lou Brock, along with Maury Wills, are probably the two players most responsible for the biggest change in the game over the last fifteen years - the stolen base.

There are only two places in this league, First Place and No Place.

I wasn't ever much of a Yankee fan.

It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.

He (Joe Morgan) knew when something needed to be done, and he'd do it.

The artful pitcher must take the inevitable peaks and valleys of pitching in stride and never give in to the batters or lose sight of his/her own strengths.