But I would say basically, I would just like to be remembered for what I did on the field.

But I would say basically, I would just like to be remembered for what I did on the field.

I was probably in the best shape of any athlete at the time, but you don't get to pass judgment on yourself.

To pick up the paper and read about yourself getting slammed, that doesn't start your day off right.

To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.

Pete Rose came over to the Phillies in '79 and he became the catalyst that helped us to put it all together.

It's all quotes, anyway, and it all sounds the same to me.

I took it personal. I got slammed quite a bit.

My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates.

I trained myself to perform on the field.

That's the past. I don't agree with retrospect.

And the irony is that they wrote better without access to my quotes.

The final release point for the fastball is the tips of your fingers.

Everything I was, physically and mentally, that's what I put on that field.

So what I did on the field was the essence of what I am. Remember me like that.

Rooting is following, and I don't do that, but I'd like to see the Phillies win because I love Philadelphia.

You've gotta find a way to get out of your own way, so you can progress in life.

Blue is the male principle, stern and spiritual. Yellow the female principle, gentle, cheerful and sensual. Red is matter, brutal and heavy and always the colour which must be fought and vanquished by the other two.

It is long since I could have adventured on eternity, through God's mercy and Christ's merits; but death remained somewhat terrible, and that now is taken away; and now death is no more to me, but to cast myself into my husband's arms, and to lie down with Him.

All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me.

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.

The people around us are at the top of their craft, and we benefit from that.

I grew up in a household that had its roots in church and community and culture and poetry and song and in the arts. Those aspects certainly shaped what I do.

For 200 years we've been conquering nature. Now we're beating it to death.

I like design, I like details, to me it is just another form of self-expression.

Just because something isn't a lie does not mean that it isn't deceptive. A liar knows that he is a liar, but one who speaks mere portions of truth in order to deceive is a craftsman of destruction.

Once you are a model, you do have to fly a million red-eye flights, and you do have to entertain a different client every single day.

An Op-Ed by a Republican criticizing the Democrats, or vice versa, is easy to come by and not that interesting. But a Democrat who takes issue with his or her party, or a Republican who does that, is more valuable.

Football was what I was good at, and it was what I loved.

If someone you know makes a bad decision or uses bad judgment it doesnt mean you have to allow that to alter your attitude. Why should you allow anyone elses bad decisions to send you into a tailspin of misery

Men do not value a good deed unless it brings a reward.

Today it has been estimated that the average 70 year old has four chronic conditions and consumes an average of 35 PBS scripts per year for those conditions.

For those of you who worry that I am a skinhead and anything that goes along with that, I am not.

We cannot glimpse the essential life of a caged animal, only the shadow of its former beauty.

God help us from those who believe that they are the sole possessors of truth. How we manage at times to agree willingly to become prisoners within our own minds and souls of beliefs and ideas on which we can never be flexible.

Intelligence is ongoing, individual adaptability. Adaptations that an intelligent species may make in a single generation, other species make over many generations of selective breeding and selective dying.

Will he get a place for his oldest boy? He can not. His girl? Why, the Chinaman is in her place too!

'Edward Scissorhands' was tough to let go of because I found real safety in allowing myself to be that open, that honest. To explore purity. It was a hard one to walk away from.

A fabulous pair of shoes? I have to have willpower.

I do adore food. If I have any vice it's eating. If I was told I could only eat one food for the rest of my life, I could put up with sausage and mash forever.

Much learning does not teach understanding.