I trained myself to perform 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.

At the end of the day, if you don't have a record contract, a studio or a guitar, you can still write songs. You're still an artist. That's something no one can take away.

Resting on your laurels is as dangerous as resting when you are walking in the snow. You doze off and die in your sleep.

In the U.K., journalists are a little bit more ruthless than in Denmark. I have a feeling the tabloid press in the U.K. is pretty harsh.

The world is a pile of grunge.

Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.

I've lost Poland. Without Poland, I go down. I've been thrown out; yet I love my country.

Further, there are things of which the mind understands one part, but remains ignorant of the other; and when man is able to comprehend certain things, it does not follow that he must be able to comprehend everything.

But there are no loners. No man lives in a void. His every act is conditioned by his time and his society.

Nothing is said which has not been said before.

I do like to fly under the radar. When I walk around town, the only people I want to recognise me and call me by my name are the folks at Starbucks.

Should we tolerate debate within feminism's ranks? Undebatable! But it's not so simple: women are socialised to avoid conflict; when we do differ, especially on politics and in public, it's still tediously labelled a 'catfight.'

A lot of deals are done or not done because chief executives are not fully aligned to shareholders.

Even if you're specific about the character of the song, it's more exciting to place them, juxtapose them in such a way as to make an adventure out of the sequence of the songs.

You can't let a candidate run for too long. He will be dragged along, cut apart, put back together and ripped to shreds again - from both the political opponents and the media.

I have heard people eat most heartily of another man's meat, that is, what they do not pay for.

There are so many screenwriters with incredible stories to tell, so I hope there will be some kind of shift in the business where very few types of movies are now made by the studios. There needs to be different budgets for different audiences; not everything having to be a huge opening weekend.

I would love to get into acting. I really enjoy acting - portraying other personalities and approaching different levels and whatnot - that would be awesome.

I've always liked to dance - I've got a natural rhythm.

I do not believe a man can ever leave his business. He ought to think of it by day and dream of it by night.

I'm an actor, but I am an awful liar.

Nothing you do particularly matters. But I'm not sure that's a great excuse for doing it poorly.

You just have to trust your own madness.

God tells me how the music should sound, but you stand in the way.

I hated turning 40; the whole idea of it stank. But once I got through it, I was fine.