Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.

Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.

You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches.

The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game.

When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team.

It took me a few years to realize that throwing harder wasn't always better.

Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.

But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball.

That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show them what I could do.

Later, I could take something off my slider and I could make my fastball sink, so I really had four pitches.

Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it.

I also think that I had great mechanics.

I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame.

I think today the players are too nice to one another, but that might change with the unbalanced schedule, with teams playing each other more and more. When you face each other that much, with that much at stake, something's bound to happen.

I had never been to the playoffs, and it was exciting. The fans went through the roof. They were excited about the whole team. It was great to be traded to a city like Chicago, which was a lot like Boston.

I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings.

Tony knew me both as an athlete and as a person. He cared for me like a father.

When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start.

I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game.

I was in good control of my body, and I kept my head still.

My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important.

I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and go from there.

But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate.

They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like magic.

Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

I've been around long enough to know that empires come and empires go, and I can't tell how long the Google empire is going to last - but I'm pretty convinced that the answer is less than forever.

Three-fourths of the universe is hydrogen, and oxygen is incredibly abundant, too. So H2O is something you can find nearly everywhere.

How many actors have a shot at being a part of something that became a part of pop culture? It's been very rewarding. I'm not getting the 20 million bucks for the new movies, but at least I'm getting warmth and recognition from people wherever I go.

I'm always focused.

Romance is important to me, and to have a romance with your husband takes a bit of doing. The key is to make sure your partner misses you. That means you have to take yourself away.

Stability is not immobility.

My understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ. Christ teaches that God is love.

People don't know I've got a deep social conscience. I'm a child of the Depression, born in 1933. My parents were very liberal in their social views.

I am so enriched because so much has happened in my life. The way I can express myself is because of the life I have led. It's only when you experience life can you emote it.

I'm very, very blessed.

I'm interested in taking hold of the dull truth narrative and finding inside it the transcendence and spirituality and hysteria normally associated with religion.

To the teacher weighed down with paperwork, I say: you've been messed around too often. You came into teaching to spend your time teaching children not filling in forms.

Once you're in charge of your job, your house, your children, getting the food on the table, doing all of this, all of the time, it'd be nice for someone else to be in charge for a bit maybe.

I need six weeks of rehearsal and women need nine months and it took me 15 years to figure that out.

I was a very isolated teenager.

The past is never the past. It is always present. And you better reckon with it in your life and in your daily experience, or it will get you. It will get you really bad.

Film is a very intimate medium.

Best friends its a promise not a label.

For me, just being on the cover of a magazine wasn't enough. I began to think, what value is there in doing something in which you have no creative input?

Writing for the theater, you find yourself living a nocturnal life.

Any comedian who tells you how dark and dangerous they are theyre not dark and dangerous.

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris blondes and switchblades.

Be bold and fly toward the unknown. Discover a road that was never known.