A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game.

I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball.

Too many pitchers, that's all, there are just too many pitchers Ten or twelve on a team. Don't see how any of them get enough work. Four starting pitchers and one relief man ought to be enough. Pitch 'em every three days and you'd find they'd get control and good, strong arms.

All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock.

A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game.

Gosh, all a kid has to do these days is spit straight and he gets forty-thousand dollars to sign.

One of the fellows called me 'Cyclone' but finally shortened it to 'Cy' and its been that ever since.

To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but the soul.

It's good to be in a position to know that I've inspired musicians, from what I've learned to lay down personally, and collectively with Led Zeppelin.

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.

To know a man, observe how he wins his object, rather than how he loses it; for when we fail our pride supports us; when we succeed, it betrays us.

A man who makes trouble for others is also making trouble for himself.

I think they'd rather us follow our hearts and I hope that's what some people will understand.

As for writing about temptation, there's no drama without temptation, and no novel without drama.

This war is not about slavery.

I feel the same way I did when I was in school. I'm having the same insecurities.

If a big person invests time in reading, kids learn reading is important, the child is important, words are important, stories are important.

I'm not an experienced sailor.

I spent over ten years in the Central Intelligence Agency as an undercover operations officer serving overseas after 9/11 where I carried out covert operations against al-Qaeda and other terrorist groups, as well as other countries who are 'hostile to liberty,' as I like to say.

Shakespeare has been praised in English more than anything mortal except poetry itself. Fame exhausts thought in his eulogy.

Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns.

When I used to play sports, I'd be the one cheering the team on, 'Come on, we can beat these guys!' That's just in me.

What is government but an arrangement by which the many accept the authority of the few

I've been every size in the world. Parts of my twenties, I was in great shape, but I didn't appreciate it. 'If I was a 6 or an 8,' I thought, 'Why aren't I a 2 or a 4?'

Become a fixer, not just a fixture.

Truman has become the patron saint of failed presidents because he left office with a 27 percent approval rating, and people were saying, 'To err is Truman,' yet look at what he did: the Marshall Plan, the creation of NATO, the Truman Doctrine.

I think the Colorado Plateau is the most scenic area in the world - let's begin with that. Not just the United States.

Why e-mail a full emotional statement when, instead, you can text a totally insignificant and ambiguous half-considered phrase?

I think the Lord's Prayer is a very powerful prayer. And the prayer of St. Francis.

When someone loves you, the way they talk about you is different. You feel safe and comfortable.

There's something about doing stand-up that's cathartic.