“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.

Memory is the most transient of all possessions. And when it goes, it leaves as few traces as stars that have disappeared.

In fact, whenever energy is transmitted from one body to another in time, there must be a medium or substance in which the energy exists after it leaves one body and before it reaches the other … and if we admit this medium as an hypothesis.

And when statesman or others worry [the scientist] too much, then he should leave with his possessions.

When I was young, I never wanted to leave the court until I got things exactly correct. My dream was to become a pro.

We will not return No one must leave here and so carry to the world, together with the sign impressed on his skin, the evil tidings of what man’s presumption made of man in Auschwitz

We are a company that lives and breathes a philosophy that’s centered on not only making sound business decisions but also personally and professionally finding ways to contribute to the well being of society.

Finishing a good book is like leaving a good friend.

I was the world’s ugliest baby. I have photos of my folks leaving the hospital with sacks over their heads… I asked my mother how to turn off the electric fan. She said ‘Grab the blade!