A good professional athlete must have the love of a little boy. And the good players feel the kind of love for the game that they did when they were Little Leaguers.

The concentration and dedication- the intangibles are the deciding factors between who won and who lost.

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

God is living in New York, and he's a Mets fan.

Take a look at all of them: Marichal, Jenkins, Spahn - what do you think made them successful? They conditioned their arms by pitching more, not less, starting from when they signed their first contract.

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

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!’