Quote

I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan.

My dad and all my family were into baseball. His brothers, my mom's brothers, my mom's father. Baseball was just always a part of our family.

I had an addiction to play baseball.

Baseball life is a tough life on the family.

I used to run with Chris Nolan before he was 'Chris Nolan.' I remember when he was trying to sell 'Memento,' and he just couldn't.

I was a baseball fan myself, I wanted to play baseball.

I always thought that there was going to be life after baseball, and so I designed that in my life I would have other interests after baseball that I would be able to step into. And I didn't realize the grip that baseball had on me and on my family.

It was all I lived for, to play baseball.

Baseball was one-hundred percent of my life.

And then when I went to stay in '68, I can honestly say that I was not focused on my career and on what it took to be a major league pitcher and to be a starting pitcher.