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I'm probably the only relief pitcher who has more saves than strikeouts.

I don't mean to diminish the job, it's a good job and a real pressure job. But I don't think a relief pitcher should ever be the most valuable player of a league. We only play in maybe half of the games. Being a relief pitcher means part-time employment. We're bench players, and bench players shouldn't be M.V.P.

The difference between relief pitching when I did it today is simple, there is too much of it. It's one of those cases where more is not necessarily better.

You can always improve your bench and relief pitching.

All backups take their cue from Elrod Hendricks, the patron saint of erstwhile catchers.

He had a face like a blessing.

We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief.

There are two sighs of relief every night in the life of an opera manager. The first comes when the curtain goes up The second sigh of relief comes when the final curtain goes down without any disaster, and one realizes, gratefully, that the miracle has happened again.

He that is good for making excuses is seldom good for anything else.

The return is one of the hardest shots to make when you come back from injury.