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

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.

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

My pitch count as a general rule was 135. And I knew how many pitches I had when I went to the mound for the last three innings.

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!’

If you don't think baseball is a big deal, don't do it. But if you do, do it right.

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.