Believe me, I would much rather get three outs on three pitches than three outs on nine pitches, because that’s going to make me that much stronger at the end of the game. My pitching philosophy is simpe. I believe in getting the ball over the plate and not walking a lot of men.

Nobody has won thirty games in a season since Denny McLain did it in 1968. No other pitcher has drunk as many Pepsi-Colas, broken as many team rules, or played the organ as famously as McLain did. And there has never been another World Series game in which both starting pitchers had won the Cy Young and Most Valuable Player awards that year.

Fishing is one of the greatest things that you can do, it has the power to relax you like nothing else and there’s nothing quite like the thrill of the catch.

I owe the public just one thing – a good performance.

Rules or no rules, pitchers are going to throw spitters. It’s a matter of survival.

I can't wait until the new one is built. New is good.

It was just a natural thing for me. I don't know that I really worked on it. At some point every pitcher is in the same position in his mechanics ? how you get to that point will always be different.

The Bay said that a number of people were doing their due diligence, so those are quite logical bidders.

It wasn't like that when I started out in Omaha (in 1957). I walked into the clubhouse here and I remember the one we had in Omaha was about one-third the size of that.

This is a disaster. This is an industry-wide problem. Pricing is low and they're having to keep their prices down to compete.