Occupation: Baseball Player Birth: February 7, 1953 Death: September 30, 1998
Most pitchers fear losing their fastball and, since I don't have one, the only thing I have to fear is fear itself..
Natural grass is a wonderful thing for little bugs and sinkerball pitchers..
A manager uses a relief pitcher like a six shooter, he fires until it's empty then takes the gun and throws it at the villain..
The future is much like the present, only longer..
When I came over here (the National League), I always heard it was a stronger league, with amphetamines all over the clubhouse, but all I found was M….
It helps to be stupid if you're a relief pitcher. Relievers had to get into a zone of their own. I just hope I'm stupid enough..
Someone told me just recently that poets are eulogists. It's their job, to eulogize. I didn't know that, but it makes sense. Because in almost every ….
Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home..
Reggie Jackson hit one off me that's still burrowing its way to Los Angeles..
I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player….
They're (California Angels) like the American League All-Star team, and that's their problem, the American League All-Star team always loses..
The best thing about baseball is there's no homework..
It's easy to enjoy your job and enjoy other people when things are going good. When you're faced with adversity is when the character of men is measu….
He (Ted Simmons) didn't sound like a baseball player. He said things like 'nevertheless' and 'if, in fact..
Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with ….
I became a better pitcher when I found a delivery in my flaw..
Strikes (1981) are real life. It took up seven weeks of real time. That's a fifth of a pregnancy..
I have seen the future and it's like the present, only longer..
It (his contract) has options through the year 2020 or until the last Rocky movie is made..