Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers.
I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer.
A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain.
I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw.
The best thing about baseball is there's no homework.
Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself.
It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of men is measured. There's a Mennonite proverb, 'Man, like a tree, is measured best when cut down.'
Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.
It helps to be stupid if you're a relief pitcher. Relievers had to get into a zone of their own. I just hope I'm stupid enough.
Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every poem of mine there is a loss.
The future is much like the present, only longer.
Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.
Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.
I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.
He (Ted Simmons) didn't sound like a baseball player. He said things like 'nevertheless' and 'if, in fact.
Strikes (1981) are real life. It took up seven weeks of real time. That's a fifth of a pregnancy.
It (his contract) has options through the year 2020 or until the last Rocky movie is made.
They're (California Angels) like the American League All-Star team, and that's their problem, the American League All-Star team always loses.
When I came over here (the National League), I always heard it was a stronger league, with amphetamines all over the clubhouse, but all I found was Michelob Dry.
