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

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.

I'm very square and proud of it. The flag stays on the porch here.

There were very few women comics when I started out doing stand-up. But I always saw that as a great advantage.

At the outset, my notion of being a writer was that you would have moments of inspiration and moments of frustration, when you'd crumple up your pages and toss them away. On one side, the dustbin would fill up, and on the other side, pages would rise into a novel.

You have setbacks in your life, and adversity. You can be discouraged about it or have courage to get through it and be better.

As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people of Haiti, to share in their suffering, help rebuild the country, moving from misery to poverty with dignity.

I actually enjoy Britney Spears. Not as a singer but as a performer. I just enjoy watching her. I think, 'You are so brave.'

In the original computer game of Doom, you not only have to kill things. You have to pulverise them.

I want to stop transforming and just start being.

Only one sport can subsume my life at a time.

Any country that grants asylum to Snowden risks retaliation from the United States, including diplomatic isolation and costly trade sanctions. Several don't seem to care.

Everybody should pay some tax, just as everybody should vote.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

Dear to us are those who love us but dearer are those who reject us as unworthy, for they add another life; they build a heaven before us whereof we had not dreamed, and thereby supply to us new powers out of the recesses of the spirit.

It seems to me that I have always existed and that I possess memories that date back to the Pharaohs.

You know, you don't work 30 something years in this business without knowing how to push yourself. So, I just kept pushing myself and pushing myself. The other thing that happens is when your hormones get out of whack your emotions come up.

My idea of absolute happiness is to be in bed on a rainy day, with my blankie, my cat, and my dog.

There’s a future version of you who’s proud you were strong enough.

Difficulty is inevitable. Drama is a choice.

Everything is beautiful, all that matters is to be able to interpret.

If you think about 'Person of Interest' with Taraji P. Henson or 'Scandal' with Kerry Washington - any of those black women could have been any race; they just happen to be black. And those are the characters that I'm more attracted to. It's not so much about separation of race, but really, more uniting us.

What you believe about who you are, where you came from, affects your whole worldview.

The genius of a folk melody or story is not the feeling that it's original but quite the opposite - the feeling that it has existed all along.

And Michael likes to read a lot. People don't realize that about him but he reads a number of books per week and he's fascinated just about every subject.

Morality pertains only to the sphere of mans free will only to those actions which are open to his choice.