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

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.

Never doubt that a small group of thoughful committed individuals can change the world indeed its the only thing that ever has.

The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.

When I left French 'Vogue,' New York welcomed me with a big, big hug.

I don't know if I should say this, but I feel more like a singer than an artist.

I can live for my music, but I don't need to be recognized everywhere.

The Dream Act as it's been written originally is too broad, to be honest. It basically would apply to too many people.

I was in high school, and when you get to be 14, 15, you start to feel a little more like your own person so that you can assert your adulthood a little bit.

We've got some very good things to do without screwing around with sleeves.

A writer is someone who can make a riddle out of an answer.

The Widelux is a fickle mistress; its viewfinder isn't accurate, and there's no manual focus, so it has an arbitrariness to it, a capricious quality. I like that.

Our soul intuition is a faculty of God. He has no mouth yet.

Season 4 can be deadly for a show that's been a hit show.

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

There was a great difference in boats of course. For a long time I was on a boat that was so slow we used to forget what year it was we left port in.

It is such a terrifying thing to see a man cry.

I arrived in New York in 1986, when I was 28. The market here was nothing. In the Union Square farmers' market, it was a couple of potatoes, everything from California. So the only place I was comfortable shopping was in Chinatown, because it all came from Hong Kong.

SNL is a home. You've got all of your brothers and sisters there, and it's a great time.

When you have a name that means scares, you have to live with that.

A relationship has to be cultivated. There have to be feelings of love for another first. But then you have to really like the person.

I'm definitely on the spectrum of socially awkward.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

Although my life is far from perfect, the irony is that in a divorced parent's custody schedule - with days on and days off - instead of like it was before, when I felt ragged and still oddly guilty all the time, now I feel guilty but not ragged.

Internet freedom is not possible without freedom from fear, and users will not be free from fear unless they are sufficiently protected from online theft and attack.

What I hated then - and hate now - is the way that people say to girls like me who get pregnant young that it ruins your life. Having a child doesn't ruin your life - having a child is a blessing.