When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it with beautiful clarity.

After Jackie Robinson the most important black in baseball history is

Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.

The only way I'm going to get a gold glove is with a can of spray paint.

Hitting is better than sex.

Blind people come to the park just to hear him pitch.