I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.

I expect to win. I've never been content with anything I've ever done.

I've refined my mechanics, refined my pitches. I've gotten more confidence, and I've gotten more determination. I've got a better idea what I'm doing out there.

Maybe I've lost a little, but I think everyone does over time. People have been writing that I'm getting old every year, and eventually they're going to be right. There's nobody in this game that's doing the same things they once did in the peak years of their career.

When you win, you want more of it. You can't win enough.

I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.

The word 'potential' used to hang over me like a cloud.

I'm tired of people questioning me because of my age. If you looked at my numbers and watched me throw and covered my birthdate, would age be an issue?

I threw a lot of balls and walked a lot of batters. Not something I'm proud of, but something I learned from.

I had a long conversation with Steve Carlton. He told me that on the days he pitched, he felt it was his responsibility to make everyone around him better, to lift his teammates. That's what I try to do.

When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.

I listened to all types of music, and obviously when I got to Seattle I was very much aware of the music scene there.

I would think flying would be pretty cool. You would be able to fly away from all your enemies and get where you're going much faster. But being invisible? You probably wouldn't use that for the good of man.

It's hard to mix with a crowd when you're walking down the hallway and everybody else is a foot shorter. I remember hanging out with my friends, like at the mall, and thinking people were staring at me and talking about me. It made me turn inside myself. I became more shy and quiet.

People who say they're not nervous - I would be kind of curious to see how successful you are at what you do and how long you've done it. And what is success in your eyes? Have you separated yourself from everyone else in that craft? Or have you settled amongst the pack?

Tiger Woods, Larry Bird, Wayne Gretzky, a pitcher just before a game, I would imagine they all have nervous energy. But as you perform, the nervous energy dissipates and you start to relax and you start to do what you do best.

Work hard. And have patience. Because no matter who you are, you're going to get hurt in your career and you have to be patient to get through the injuries.

Were at the crossroads where we need to win to stay alive.

My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.

I don't feel like a grandmother. I don't.

Ambition is a poor excuse for not having sense enough to be lazy.

Lao Tsu found Taoism easy to reconcile withthe world of human beings which is interesting because with all the nature imagery one might think it was in some way antithetical to contempory life.

I've always loved the dialogue that Pedro Almodovar writes.

If pessimism robs us of laughter it has done worse by 'beguiling us of our tears', not that for its sake they are, but that they are not, shed.

It was the nearest to a casualty on the Spray in her whole course, so far as I know. The young man having come on board with compliments made the mishap most embarrassing.

Empowering women by allowing them to choose when and how many children to have is not only the right thing to do, it is the smart thing to do.

VW has held a beloved place in American culture. When I graduated from college, many of my friends drove across the country, and most hit the road in a VW van or Bug. Through the years, these cars have represented youth, freedom and quirkiness.

Belief is not restricted to a brief affirmation based on imitation; rather, it has degrees and stages of development. It is like a seed growing into a fully grown, fruit-bearing tree; like the sun's image in a mirror or in a drop of water to its images on the sea's surface and to the sun itself.

... Pain generated or sustained by the mind needs the body mainly in order to give suffering a location.

When alchemists were talking about turning lead to gold, they were talking about turning a leaden consciousness, which most of us exist in during our lives, into a golden consciousness, which is a much better place to be.

I think there'd be huge losses if there weren't newspapers. I know everything's shifting to the Internet and some people would say, 'News is news, what you're talking about is a change of consumption, not the product that's out there.' But I think there is a change.

I didn't think I'd ever be able to do movies. That was for serious actors.

Sometimes people come into your life just to teach you how to let go.

Music is one of the noblest callings I can think of. It's the highest of all the art forms to me. For example, if my kid said to me, 'I want to give it all up,' whatever it is that they're doing, 'and I want to take my saxophone and go out,' I would say, 'May God go with you. This is a great and noble thing that you're doing.'

Who is the ally of the coach? Who's going to write, 'Man, that was a well-coached game.' Players win, coaches lose.

Quick riches are more dangerous than poverty.

We will do whatever we could do to keep Greece inside the euro and inside Europe.

It doesn't matter what color, sex, religion, age, sexual orientation, etc., everyone should have the same freedoms and liberties.

Poetry is one of the destinies of speech... One would say that the poetic image, in its newness, opens a future to language.

If I wait for the genius to come, it just doesn't arrive.

The greatest concubines in history knew that everything revealed with nothing concealed is a bore.

Misdirected focus on paperwork, on procedures, and on bureaucracy frustrates teachers and fails to give children the education they need.