“A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross ...” — Warren Spahn Quote

“A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.”

“Twenty games is the magic figure for pitchers - .300 is the magic figures for batters. It pays off in salary and reputation. And those are the two things that keep a ballplayer in business.”

“Hitting is timing. Pitching is upsetting timing.”

“Having been built in the fashion I was as a child - created and then deflated - has left me with a distinct feeling of failure. Because I did not live up to my precocity, I experience it to be like a cross between a has-been and a never-was.”

“You never know what you're going to end up with when you sit down to write something. At the end, if it holds, it can do this multifarious thing - which is to open things rather than close them, to make them bigger rather than smaller, to cross those divides which we live every day of our lives.”