Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.

Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles.

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.

The future is much like the present, only longer.

I've seen the future and it's much like the present only longer.

Our fielders have to catch a lot of balls, or at least deflect them to someone who can.

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.

Every year the World Series should go seven games for the dramatics of it.

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.

I have seen the future, and it is much like the present, only longer.

I lull them into a false sense of security by watching me pitch... If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.

If overconfidence can cause the Roman Empire to fall, I ought to be able to get a ground ball.

Most pitchers fear losing their fastball, but since I don't have one, I have nothing to fear but fear itself.

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

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 best thing about baseball is there's no homework.

Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers

Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers.

I want to grow old without facelifts. I want to have the courage to be loyal to the face I have made.

For a while, I stopped enjoying making movies and I stopped enjoying acting, because I made a few decisions that I wish I hadn't made.

How do you walk from one place to another? What makes you want to walk someplace? Any place that you want to get out of your car and walk is a good place by definition.

I'm quite a particular singer, and I need to feel like I can bite into the song, in a way, to make it my own. You want the challenge of the songs having some attitude.

Is marriage for ever? I think you get married with the intention that it will be, but who knows?

Sometimes becoming drug free has less to do with addiction and more to do with sanity.

Back when I was restoring art and antiques, finding ivory was very difficult because it's illegal, and the only difference between bone and ivory is that bone is free and not illegal.

Earthly wisdom is doing what comes naturally. Godly wisdom is doing what the Holy Spirit compels us to do.

Men do weird things when they experience fear. It's like a fight-or-flight thing.

During courtship guarding each others purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking.

We have a First Amendment for good reasons. We need a free press because without an educated electorate we cannot have a functioning democracy.

I think I would probably die without my eyeliner, but besides that I'm pretty basic.

The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the 'Mythbusters' heart and there's no small reason that they've embraced us. That's our people. That's the way we like to think.

The unique nature about the influenza virus is its great potential for changes, for mutation.

When I was in college, being a magician was not the classiest thing to be. It was like being a folk singer before Bob Dylan.

Only a man who has felt ultimate despair is capable of feeling ultimate bliss.

Because I am not formally trained in the medical sciences, I can bring in new ideas to AIDS research and the cross-fertilization of ideas from different fields could be a valuable contribution to finding the cure for AIDS.

'Legend of the Drunken Master' was my favorite.

When you win a Grammy, it links a certain prestige and importance to you, you know? People want to talk to you.

Even faith in God is only a stage on the way. Ultimately you abandon all for you come to something so simple that there are no words to express it.

I spent half my life being hurt. The leftovers of hurt are an automatic gesture, like a dog that salivates.

Doing projects really gives people self-confidence. Nothing is better than taking the pie out of the oven. What it does for you personally, and for your family's idea of you, is something you can't buy.

Your life is what your thoughts make it.

My profession has helped me to grow up.