Occupation: Baseball Player Birth: October 3, 1954
It took me a few years to realize that throwing harder wasn't always better..
But through experience I learned to control my body and locate the ball..
You aren't going to stick around long with just two pitches.
People say baseball players should go out and have fun. No way. To me, baseball is pressure, I always feel it. This is work. The fun is afterwards, w….
When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important pa….
I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings..
Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down.
It took a great deal of acceptance to come to terms with being an alcoholic, but the acceptance was key to my sobriety. If I had not gained acceptanc….
Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it.
I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with ….
I think today the players are too nice to one another, but that might change with the unbalanced schedule, with teams playing each other more and mor….
I also think that I had great mechanics..
When I first came up, the bullpen was pretty much where they put the guys who couldn't start..
That first year in Chicago was one of the most memorable in my career. Getting traded rejuvenated me, and I had something to prove. I wanted to show ….
I was in good control of my body, and I kept my head still..
My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important.
But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in ….
They developed a platform for me to put up another 12 years, and that was my ticket to Cooperstown. Those were the best years of my life. It was like….
The thing that got me over the hump was accepting that I had to do whatever I could to stay in the game.
Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears.
I can't recall too much about pitching, but I do remember that I was anxious to get it over with. I just wanted to get that first game over with and ….