You are committed to what you confess.
If there was any magic formula, it was getting to pitch every fourth day.
I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
In the end it all comes down to talent. You can talk all you want about intangibles, I just don't know what that means. Talent makes winners, not intangibles. Can nice guys win? Sure, nice guys can win - if they're nice guys with a lot of talent. Nice guys with a little talent finish fourth, and nice guys with no talent finish last.
People who write about spring training not being necessary have never tried to throw a baseball.
He's the strangest hitter in baseball. Figure him out one way and he'll kill you another.
Nature is sanative, refining, elevating. How cunningly she hides every wrinkle of her inconceivable antiquity under roses, and violets, and morning dew! Every inch of the mountains is scarred by unimaginable convulsions, yet the new day is purple with the bloom of youth and love.
Every story teaches me how to write it. Unfortunately, it doesn't teach me how to write the next one.
The swan who goes on living in its parents' tree will die; this is why those who are beautiful and talented bear the burden of finding their own way in the world.
I sometimes fancy," said Hilda, on whose susceptibility the scene always made a strong impression, "that Rome--mere Rome--will crowd everything else out of my heart.