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

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.

He who hesitates is poor.

My experience has been that military assessments on 'how goes the war' are consistently more optimistic than those made by the CIA and other agencies.

I began by doing a lot of character work on TV, just fun acting parts.

Behind every great achievement is a dreamer of great dreams.

Anything that makes you feel the most alone also has the greatest power to connect you.

You pick up loads of baggage with your first record with reaction to it from fans and critics. So I went to Ireland by myself for a couple of weeks with my guitar. I read lots of poetry, I read Patti Smith's autobiography and started words and phrases and then songs started to take shape.

It doesn't seem like it's been 50 years. I don't even feel like I'm 50 years old yet, though I've had all these knee and back operations.

If I'm such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you've got somebody around who loves you.

We're losing all kinds of white-collar jobs, all kinds of jobs in addition to manufacturing jobs, which we're losing by the droves in my state.

It is the liberal philosophy, not the conservative one, that views humans as selfish automatons.

I write slowly and get distracted a lot.

I do not go outdoors... As far as I'm concerned, the whole point of living in New York City is indoors. You want greenery? Order the spinach.

Nothing gives me more pleasure than acting. But I don't enjoy going for award functions or giving interviews.

It appears that the Obama Administration is attempting to silence public comments and once again pander to extremist mining opponents seeking to undermine a bipartisan jobs bill that is estimated to create approximately 3,700 new jobs and generate $60 billion dollars for our economy.

The aim, if reached or not, makes great the life: Try to be Shakespeare, leave the rest to fate!

Personally, I need a high level of physical fitness in order to feel at ease.

She had already allowed her delectable lover to pluck that flower which, so different from the rose to which it is nevertheless sometimes compared, has not the same faculty of being reborn each spring.

Religion is the best antidote to the individualism of the consumer age. The idea that society can do without it flies in the face of history and, now, evolutionary biology.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

When I was 13, I entered the seminary in the hope of becoming a priest. But I often found myself helping the nuns in the kitchen and thus discovered my passion for cooking. I began to cultivate my skills and aspirations at the age of 15, when I embarked on my first apprenticeship.

When someone beats a rug, the blows are not against the rug, but against the dust in it.

As a black woman, I have no particular interest in maintaining the status quo. Why would I? The status quo is harmful; the status quo is significantly racist and sexist and a whole bunch of other things that I think need to change.

I love to flirt, and I've never met a man I didn't like.

I was born in Somalia, which is in East Africa. My parents started with nothing: poor, poor, poor. They eloped, which was unheard of in my country, when my father was 17 and my mother was 14.