most people did not care to be taught what they did not already know; it made them feel ignorant.
Pitching is the art of instilling fear.
I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it.
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.
The only time I really try for a strikeout is when I'm in a jam. If the bases are loaded with none out, for example, then I'll go for a strikeout. But most of the time I try to throw to spots. I try to get them to pop up or ground out. On a strikeout I might have to throw five or six pitches, sometimes more if there are foul-offs. That tires me. So I just try to get outs. That's what counts - outs. You win with outs, not strikeouts.
It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.
Science is not a subject you took in school. It's life. We are wrapped by it, in it, with it.
What we call 'normal' in psychology is really a psychopathology of the average, so undramatic and so widely spread that we don't even notice it ordinarily.
All religion and all ethics are summed up in justice.