“I did not want to leave the Mets and I did not want to leave New York.”

You put deadlines on people you really don’t want, because that’s how you feel about them.

I like starting. It’s pretty cool.

The pitcher setting up the batter. It’s chess, and you play with it.

Pitches are like pages of a book; they’re so important.

The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I’ll do it differently later.

Announcers don’t do enough of the cat-and-mouse strategy and all the work that goes into it.

You watch a broadcast and guys get the pitches wrong.

You are an instrument of God. Don’t leave the instrument sitting in its case, my son. Play! Leave no part of your instrument unexplored. .

My sense is that the wonderful technology that we have to visualize the inside of the body often leaves physicians feeling that the exam is a waste of time and so they may shortchange the ritual.

The most beautiful carpet is the carpet made of autumn leaves!

The meaning of my thoughts started to float away from me, like leaves that fall from a tree into a river, I was the tree, the world was the river.

What though youth gave love and roses, Age still leaves us friends and wine.

There Daphne’s Lover stopped, and thought it much The very leaves of her to touch: But Harvey, our Apollo, stopp’d not so; Into the Bark and Root he after her did go!

I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.

So being able to be that person and then when you leave you’re yourself again