People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

I would always reserve a special place in my heart for Pittsburgh.

You only have a few years to play this game and you can't play it if you're all tied up in knots.

There's nothing I value more than the closeness of friends and family, a smile as I pass someone on the street.

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.

Trying to hit Sandy Koufax was like trying to drink coffee with a fork.

Throwing a knuckleball for a strike is like throwing a butterfly with hiccups across the street into your neighbor's mailbox.