Home plate is 17 inches wide, but I ignore the middle 12 inches. I pitch to the two-and-a-half inches on each side.
I throw just as hard as ever - it just takes twice as long to get there.
What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.
Gentlemen, for the first 60 feet that was a hell of a pitch.
When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.
[On Willie Mays] He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was a home run off me and I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie (Mays) forever if I'd only struck him out.