Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.

If you build it, he will come.

Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold. I worked each until the vein was exhausted.

Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.

[I had ] uneventful, though isolated childhood. Good, kind, stable parents.

Curt Flood, of course, was in a class by himself, a true hero.

My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.