Im a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.

I wasn't ever much of a Yankee fan.

If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam.

These kids today, they want to be men, they want to be foxhole guys, but they’re not being allowed to do that. Imagine if these computer geeks who are running baseball now were allowed to run a war? They’d be telling our soldiers: ‘That’s enough. You’ve fired too many bullets from your rifle this week!’

Im a huge advocate of pitching. You have to have good pitching as the solid core, the foundation. It keeps you in every game.

The good rising fastball is the best pitch in baseball.

There is no set numerical value you can put on a pitcher. Theyre all different.