Pitchers, like poets, are born not made.

The one thing you have to have is patience, … You just can’t rush everything. I use myself as an example. The last couple of years have been great, but it took some time to...

[The relentless drive to prove himself, to always come out on top — as if to validate his father’s faith in him — would win pennants and batting titles but also alienate many around him....

Too many pitchers, that’s all, there are just too many pitchers Ten or twelve on a team. Don’t see how any of them get enough work. Four starting pitchers and one relief man ought to...

A pitcher’s got to be good and he’s got to be lucky to get a no hit game.

I thought I had to show all my stuff and I almost tore the boards of the grandstand with my fastball.

One of the fellows called me ‘Cyclone’ but finally shortened it to ‘Cy’ and its been that ever since.

All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock.

Gosh, all a kid has to do these days is spit straight and he gets forty-thousand dollars to sign.