I faced Gibson many times and faced Sandy Koufax three times.

When he hit a ground ball to you, you knew you had to make a good throw because he was going to be running.

But when I stopped facing Sandy, I had to face Don Drysdale. No one on my team wanted to face him.

The only way you preserve pitching arms is throwing; that makes the arm stronger.

We used to look at Felipe as our guiding man that we listened to.

If you are used to going five innings and then go six or seven, you won't have your good stuff. They need to start that from the minor leagues and give pitchers strong arms.

We are all so close. We are godfather to each others' kids. I was the best man at Jesus' wedding.

You had to pitch in and out. The zone didn't belong to the hitters; it belonged to the pitchers. Today, if you pitch too far inside, the umpire would stop you right there. I don't think it's fair.

I faced Gibson many times and faced Sandy Koufax three times.

Those days were very tough. All my teammates are white, and it was a different time. I couldn't go out to eat with the white players; I had to wait until someone brought something out to the bus. We couldn't stay in the same hotels.

My manager said it would more effective against left-handed hitters. It seemed to me that was impossible to do without the high leg kick, which I started that day.

There is no way to have a strong arm if you don't throw enough.

When the United States aligns with dictatorships and totalitarian regimes, it compromises the basic democratic principles of its foundation - namely, life, liberty and justice for all.

Tolerance is you saying something crazy and me smiling and saying, 'That's nice.'

I don't want to be stuck in the same spot, just dropping mixtapes for no reason.

Every day I went to work at Tampa, I gave it my all.

You can do anything you wish to do, have anything you wish to have, be anything you wish to be.

For there to be betrayal there would have to have been trust first.

If one oversteps the bounds of moderation, the greatest pleasures cease to please.

Anyone who wants simple, pat stories should buy another author's product. The real universe ain't that way, and neither are my fictive ones.

The day I made that statement, about the inventing the internet, I was tired because I'd been up all night inventing the Camcorder.

I was married for five years, and I definitely had that baby fever, which I think you should.

I thought I'd be a journalist, and only pursued acting intermittently while studying. My very first interview as a journalist was with David Usher of Moist, and he called the magazine the next day to say it was the best interview he'd done for his solo album. I felt like a million euros.

There is no doubt that Iraqis, like Australians and Americans, love and desire freedom. However, if freedom doesn't mean the right to complete self-determination, unfettered by interests other than one's own, then that freedom is less than worthless - it's oppression.

Shinto is essentially a religion of gratitude and love.

Whenever one or more components of a company's business model changes, new business models are created for supporting companies. The changes might involve niches served, new marketing angles or improved value propositions.

The scramble to get into college is going to be so terrible in the next few years that students are going to put up with almost anything, even an education.

No language can express the power and beauty and heroism of a mother's love.

I hadn't stopped fearing the chance of passing on an illness, but that fear had become balanced by the observation that being ill wasn't the same as being beaten.

Love does not care to define and is never in a hurry to do so.

We constantly learn new lessons up here. The experiences we gather will enable us to establish a long-term station on the moon and to go on to Mars.

Households, cities, countries, and nations have enjoyed great happiness when a single individual has taken heed of the Good and Beautiful. Such people not only liberate themselves; they fill those they meet with a free mind.

I hate hateful people.

Politicians must set their aims for the high ground and according to our various leanings, Democratic, Republican, Independent, we will follow. Politicians must be told if they continue to sink into the mud of obscenity, they will proceed alone.

Live one day at a time, unless you can figure out how to live two.

The quietness of his tone italicized the malice of his reply.