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You never know when you're going to throw a no-hitter or if you're ever going to get the chance to do it. It's one of those deals where the ninth inning comes around; it's either going to be your night or just a complete game.

You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.

Baseball is more than a game. It's like life played out on a field.

I really believe that what happens one day affects the next, and I think that came from that experience of learning that if I told the score inning by inning, play by play, it built up to its natural climax.

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

When you are away from the game and busy with other areas, you realize that the world does not revolve around baseball.

Baseball is the life.

Opening day. All you have to do is say the words and you feel the shutters thrown wide, the room air out, the light pour in. In baseball, no other day is so pure with possibility. No scores yet, no losses, no blame or disappointment. No hangover, at least until the game's over.

Coming into a game in the eighth or ninth inning is like parachuting behind enemy lines. And sometimes the chute doesn't open. You have to live with that. It's an occupational hazard.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.