A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.

I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.

People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.

Show me a guy who can't pitch inside and I'll show you a loser.

A guy that throws what he intends to throw, that's the definition of a good pitcher.

There is among us a far closer relationship than the purely social one of a fraternal organization because we are bound together not only by a single interest but by a common goal. To win. Nothing else matters, and nothing else will do.

Pitching is the art of instilling fear.

If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.

I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.

I think it's incredible because there were guys like Mays and Mantle and Henry Aaron who were great players for ten years... I only had four or five good years.

The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for the reviews.

I don't want to be limited or ghettoized in any way.

My first novel, 'Leaving Atlanta,' took at look at my hometown in the late 1970s, when the city was terrorized by a serial murderer that left at least 29 African-American children dead.

It's a great story. It's available for anyone else who wants to try it. We're not brilliant. We're not unbelievable. We're just two people who hit a nerve. I think it can be done again and again and again. More people should try it.

We want to change the way we help unemployed people find jobs. We want to be faster and more goal oriented.

Cheating is not the American way. It is small, while we are large. It is cheap, while we are richly endowed. It is destructive, while we are creative. It is doomed to fail, while our gifts and responsibilities call us to achieve. It sabotages trust and weakens the bonds of spirit and humanity, without which we perish.

Its all about people. Its about networking and being nice to people and not burning any bridges. Your book is going to impress but in the end it is people that are going to hire you.

Seeing is believing

I see how the Midwest distrusts the East Coast. The Midwest sees itself as morally superior. The Coast sees itself as intellectually superior. And the two are actually the same thing.

None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free.

Thank you, God, because I am lucky. Also let's face it, it turns out I'm black. And I'm having a career quite different from lots of people, so I feel doubly lucky.

Seriously, in America there are more big, curvy girls than there are little girls, and men love us, too.

When people tell you to walk a certain way, it's like not thinking of a purple tomato. You can't not do it.

Never quit on your one and only dream!!!

We see violence to forcibly seize land, at any price, murders and corruption.

When I was born, my parents were huge into skiing. I grew up on Mont Blanc, skiing on that hill. I was really a ski baby. Loved it; I still love it.

Whenever I'm reading a book I enjoy, I always develop a mental list of the people I want to share it with.

I am happy now in this moment which is all there is.

'Argo' is a work of art.

It is much better to have your gold in the hand than in the heart.

I didn't want to read French or write it; it was like a boycott, a rejection.

Its easy to feel equal to wanting. Its rare to feel equal to having.

I think the relation between the monarchy and the press is very much a two-way street.

I live and work alone and travel light, relying largely on my memory and making a point of letting intuition guide my way.

Someone once described Ken Lewis to me as the most competitive person in the history of the United States, including the Union Army.