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

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.

In the late 1980s the amount of German films was down to four or five percent of the market, and the remaining 95 percent were American. It is now 20 to 30 percent German productions.

Policy makers still think that if we just hand out more money the world's problems will be solved.

Some people are just born to cook and talk.

I love putting people to work of color.

We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.

When you see the orbiter headed out the launch pad and then crawling up the hill and being hard down on the pad, it does something to you.

In the ring, I never really knew fear.

Black culture is a fight. We want to hold on to what we are, but sometimes the things that we are can be totally negative. You have to think: can't we try something new and not be seen as suspect?

In the men's game, there are three, four, five dominant players who pretty much win everything, but in the women's, anyone can.

My instinct is to keep my engagement ring After all I wouldnt like to see it on the finger of a cheeky girl.

My administration is the only thing between you [CEO's] and the pitchforks.

My views on music, and life in general, are completely out of step with everything that's going on. I've always been out of step. The only thing that interests me is history, reviewing the past and making something out of it.

Through readiness and discipline we are the masters of our fate.

Companies don't get rich hurting their customers.

I don't find biology as interesting as politics and humanism. I talk more about existential stuff.

I am viewed as the Negro who has gone outside of the categories assigned to me.

People should just express themselves and not worry about trends - try to use fashion like a compass, an indicator, examples of things that you can be. It's not to be taken so seriously. It's just clothes.

The public is even more pessimistic about the economy than even the most bearish economists are.

When I was a baby, my mother tells me I never slept because I never wanted to miss anything.

I have never been one to look beyond today.

I find more interesting roles for women in period pieces. I do personally like watching period films; I think you can really get lost in the fantasy of them.

The first view of the Earth is magical. It is a very overpowering realization that the Earth is so small. It affected me. I could not get over the notion that in such a small planet, with such a small ribbon of life, so much goes on. It is as if the whole place is sacred.

Once you get my snark going, I'll just start snarking it up all over Twitter.

I do believe in the free market.