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

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.

I try to push a single idea to its absolute limit. So for all of those ideas that existed in the story, you attempt to find a physical realisation in the space.

In the experience of art, time seems not to exist.

I write all year long, and at the end of the year I pull these forty or fifty things out and say, 'Which of these things do I want to record?'

If you are the greatest, why would you go around talking about it?

Interestingly, a good undergraduate program does a lot of what an MBA does. I think a really good undergraduate program and some work experience is just about the equal of an MBA.

Loneliness gives you opportunity to look the beauty of out of window.

You could warm Mars up, over time, with greenhouse gases.

So many people suffer from abuse and suffer alone.

Say 'no' more than 'yes,' and just make sure you surround yourself with good people.

Good actors, you always know what they're thinking. That's why they're good actors.

All humans are hypocrites the biggest hypocrite of all is the one who claims to detest hypocrisy.

The sick do not ask if the hand that smoothes their pillow is pure nor the dying care if the lips that touch their brow have known the kiss of sin.

Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities… because it is the quality which guarantees all others.

I always want to work.

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.

I think what Bob Shiller and I are doing is we're focusing on macroeconomics and the role of psychology in macroeconomics.

A business of high principle generates greater drive and effectiveness because people know that they can do the right thing decisively and with confidence.

Being president of too many well-meaning organizations put my father into an early grave. The lesson in this was not lost on me.

We are running out of time we must have a planetary solution to a planetary crisis.

Work is valued by the social value of the worker.

Together we have travelled a long road to be where we are today. This has been a road of struggle against colonial and apartheid oppression.

I've had a wonderful career and shared the stage with Vince Gill, who was my second love.

Profit per se is not my motive.

Some people say it might be good for your career to die and then come back again. I have died many ways, car crashes, motorcycle crashes, etc. But, I am still alive.