As long as you're on the ballot, you have a chance. Just being on the ballot is such a great honor. |
I ended up with three shoulder surgeries. |
I faced Rice in All-Star Games and he was a tremendous player. And Andre Dawson could hit, run, throw. |
I owe a lot to those two. |
I think sometimes the voters try to compare us with the starting pitchers. We can't compete with their statistics, their innings or their strikeouts. I think if you compare us against each other, I think you'll see we're all pretty equal. |
I was planning a hunting trip next year if I didn't get in this year. I didn't need to be around the phone, I can tell you that. |
It just tickles me still when you see Roger Clemens, as great as he is, throw a split-finger and the hitter just swings and misses. They don't see that ball that well. Jack Morris threw an awful good one and Mike Scott -- there's a lot of great pitchers over the years that I think that pitch definitely helped their career. |
It was a call that you always hope for, but you never really expect it to happen. I didn't think it would affect me or hit me as hard as it did. |
It was the call you always hope for, but you never really expect it to happen. I can't tell you what in means to me, in words. |
Most everyone, the middle finger is dominant. With me, it was this one. That made it easy to throw. I got it to break real quick. |
That may have been true in the '50s. But if I'm playing against the Yankees and they say, 'You can take one guy off their team so he can't play against you,' well, then, it's going to be Mariano Rivera who won't play. |
The hair is gone, the black beard is gone, my arm is gone, but that memory will never die. |
The stadium wasn't the best, and the lights weren't the best. Wallis hit the ball by the lights. And nobody ever saw the ball come down. So they gave him a home run. What else are you going to do? It was one of the strangest things I ever saw. |
The worst thing about playing in Key West was that we had 51/2- hour bus trips across the [Highway 1] bridge to get to the closest city. One night, the bus driver fell asleep and hit the bridge. It was a miracle we weren't all killed. |
Were my stats good enough? I don't know. You just keep kind of hoping. |