I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.

There's no easier pitch to hit than a splitter that doesn't do anything.

Army life was rough. Would you believe it, they actually wanted me to pitch three times a week.

You would be amazed how many important outs you can get by working the count down to where the hitter is sure you're going to throw to his weakness, and then throw to his power instead.

Sooner or later the arm goes bad. It has to... Sooner or later you have to start pitching in pain.

You kind of took it for granted around the Yankees that there was always going to be baseball in October.

Hell, if I didn't drink drink or smoke, I'd win twenty games every year. It's easy when you don't drink or smoke or horse around.

The way to make coaches think you're in shape in the spring is to get a tan.

I know Koufax' weakness. He can't hit.

I never threw the spitter, well maybe once or twice when I really needed to get a guy out real bad.

Contrary to popular belief, I don't just play dreadful old villains.

Hope is the magic carpet that transports us from the present moment into the realm of infinite possibilities.

I am also deeply concerned with the widespread, often undiagnosed, incidents of PTSD and the alarming suicide rates amongst our returning soldiers.

I'm used to comic books being reimagined, different takes on some of our beloved superheroes.

Isn't it suffocating to keep waiting for life to get better all the time?

You might be the best Hamlet of your generation in the bathroom, but unfortunately, you have to come out and do it on stage, and it's best to do it to people who would fill the house.

The thyroid cells take up iodine with particular avidity and are able to store it up in great quantities.

Put work into your dreams.

If your project doesn't work, look for the part that you didn't think was important.

I majored in theater in college. I did a couple of plays in high school, and I really enjoyed it, so I went to Illinois Wesleyan University and got a degree, and then I went back to Chicago and started doing theater in all the companies around the city for about 11 years before I moved out to L.A.

I've had more people in my life take their lives than... I think it's out of proportion with most people. I think a lot of them gravitate towards me because of the music.

You can't climb up to the second floor without a ladder. When you set your aim too high and don't fulfill it, then your enthusiasm turns to bitterness. Try for a goal that's reasonable, and then gradually raise it.

Frazier was not a big man at all. Frazier was about 5'9, but he would make anyone run. Put up your dukes and cover up because he's coming. He never backed up from anyone.

I am a follower of hyaluronic acid - always in small doses, of course - to fill wrinkles and fine lines.

So many social changes are as irreversible as the reaction when sodium is thrown into water.

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.

Pay no attention to what the critics say. A statue has never been erected in honor of a critic.

In learning you will teach, and in teaching you will learn.

What makes war interesting for Americans is that we don't fight war on our soil, we don't have direct experience of it, so there's an openness about the meanings we give to it.

I always felt that rap didn't cause crime; it just reflected it.

I don't even take aspirin.

My whole approach to wardrobe is, throw it in a suitcase and make sure they don't press it, for Pete's sake, so I can try to display some rumpled charm. Actually, I'm just a pig. I've got coffee stains on my pants. I think they're coffee stains, anyway.

My big brother still thinks he's a better singer than me.

I had a few fibroids removed, and they left me with a Grand Canyon of scar tissue in my uterus. The doctors weren't sure I'd be able to reproduce. I was prepared for a rough road, and then out of nowhere we conceived.