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

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.

I think fame comes from actually doing something big with your career.

We must look after football and to do what it is necessary to bring to the game the best ethical values and personal behaviour.

I hardly look at myself in the mirror... I'll only wear makeup if I need to cover something up. But I've recently started caring about my skin. I just turned 60 and was like, 'OK, maybe it's time to start thinking about it.' Before that, I would just splash water on my face, put cream on, and then leave.

I think art is the only thing that's spiritual in the world. And I refuse to forced to believe in other people's interpretations of God. I don't think anybody should be. No one person can own the copyright to what God means.

Science may never come up with a better office communication system than the coffee break.

Religious organisations have an automatic tax-free charitable status.

For all the boredom the straight life brings, it's not too bad.

I just wanted to be a scientist.

The only sense that is common in the long run, is the sense of change and we all instinctively avoid it.

I look to challenge myself with a character that's not like myself or anything I've done before, but I certainly don't reject roles based on how often I've done them.

Western powers remain imprisoned by the idea that the world is a dangerous place, that it needs to be managed, and that they are called upon to do the managing.

I am proud to be an American, and proud that such beliefs are at the core of our country and its citizens.

If only Vivien Leigh had stayed in England, that part would have been mine.

If you had known me in middle school, I was definitely not what someone would think of as Brad Pitt. That was not me. I was kind of a dork.

I believe that the purpose for which I and my fellow soldiers entered upon this war should have been so clearly stated as to have made it impossible to change them, and that, had this been done, the objects which actuated us would now be attainable by negotiation.

People come to L.A. because they're chasing that dream of a better life. That's why I came here, because I thought it would be a place where I would find other people like me; people who wanted to write, people who had a dream of being something else. And that proved to be true.

When I was in my early teens, I remember coming to the conclusion that your life never ends.

How do we transform loss? ... Time's healing balm is essentially a hoax.

I feel, as an adult, I'm very similar to how I was as a pre-teen. Maybe it's a case of arrested development, but I feel like it's easy to slip back into those shoes, and I feel like if we were all magically transported back to our middle school years, we'd all act like we did in middle school.

Sometimes you learn more from losing than winning. Losing forces you to reexamine.

The approaching exhaustion of domestic reserves of petroleum and the rapid depletion of world reserves will have a profound effect on Americans in the cities and on the farms.

Grit is the persistence in following your own destiny.

I always say now that Im in my blonde years. Because since the end of my marriage all of my girlfriends have been blonde.

I've never been someone who's very prone to boredom. I don't know, boredom seems like something you should grow out of at about 15 or 16. There's so much that needs to be done.