Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.

You don't just throw the ball - you propel it.

When I throw a ground ball, I expect it to be an out, maybe two.

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.

A sore arm is like a headache or a toothache. It can make you feel bad, but if you just forget about it and do what you have to do, it will go away. If you really like to pitch and you want to pitch, that's what you'll do.

Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.

What is life, after all, but a challenge? And what better challenge can there be than the one between the pitcher and the hitter.

Paradise was made for tender hearts; hell, for loveless hearts.

There is one type of ideal woman very seldom described in poetry - the old maid, the woman whom sorrow or misfortune prevents from fulfilling her natural destiny.

As leader of the effort of the Iraqi Survey Group, I spent most of my days not out in the field leading inspections. It's typically what you do at that level. I was trying to motivate, direct, find strategies.

I wondered had I really oversold the Hubble. I have to admit that, since, I have been convinced that I didn't.

I want a world of peace. I'm not interested in bombs. I'm not interested in wars. I'm interested in peace.

In my parents' generation, rebellion was pop culture. It's not anymore.

Often, when I finish a film, I'll have that feeling inside me: 'I never want to do this ever again. I don't want to pretend anymore. I want to be myself and do that.'

Hominid and human evolution took place over millions and not billions of years, but with the emergence of language there was a further acceleration of time and the rate of change.

Telling it like it is means telling it like it was and how it is now that it isn't what it was to the is now people.

I was getting to bed about 10 P.M. so wound up and not getting to sleep by 11, and because I was putting the prosthetics on for five hours, I had to be up at 3 in the morning.

I saw women that were repressed. When they're in classes with young men, they shut up all the time. They're laughed at if they have unusual ideas. They have to be sexy; then, they can't really think.

Some of my friends say that I only talk about myself. But it is funny: my house is covered in art but with nothing of my own, and when I'm working, I'm only thinking about what the client wants. So I don't see it that way, but maybe it's true. I mean, they are my friends.

I was looking for something to make me happy, and once I realised what I actually had, then I found success.

TV drama - not always, but on the whole - were pretty appalling and very secondary, too. No one expected it to be like watching a movie; that was the point. But I think when you start watching 'Vikings,' it is like watching a movie - you're taken somewhere else.

Getting silver and gold out of junk machinery was quick to be learnt by others.

Britain is obsessed with political correctness.

A person who has been punished is not less inclined to behave in a given way; at best, he learns how to avoid punishment.

I hadn't grown up with 'The Hobbit;' I hadn't grown up with 'Lord of The Rings,' anything like that.

Generally speaking, companies get into bankruptcy as a kind of meritocracy. Somebody made some sort of big mistake, to get into bankruptcy, and very often, a part of the mistake is too much leverage.

Take good care of your skin and hydrate. If you have good skin, everything else will fall into place.

I came out of retirement to run a start-up. Historically, I seldom used all of my vacation time, and the last sick day I took was in 1992. I am a sick puppy.

Realism is knowing fantasy and reality intersect constantly. Realism is living with the awareness that every act changes the world.

You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.

In the theater, you didn't have any marks. Your instincts in rehearsal told you what the blocking was. On film, they reversed it. They decided ahead of time what your instincts were, before you even arrived.