The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitt….

I'm probably the only guy who worked for (Casey) Stengel before and after he was a genius..

Gentlemen, for the first 60 feet that was a hell of a pitch..

I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie forever if I'd only struck him out..

Home plate is 17 inches wide, but I ignore the middle 12 inches. I pitch to the two-and-a-half inches on each side..

Once (Stan) Musial timed your fastball, your infielders were in jeopardy..

[On Willie Mays] He was something like zero for twenty-one the first time I saw him. His first major league hit was a home run off me and I'll never ….

Spahn and Sain and pray for rain..

I throw just as hard as ever - it just takes twice as long to get there..

A good hitter has timing. A good pitcher upsets timing..

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 th….

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

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

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. ….

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

Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing..

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