Roberto Clemente hit an outside fastball that was still rising when it — Sandy Koufax

"The game has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You dont have to ask anyone or play politics. You dont have to wait for the reviews."

"Show me a guy who cant pitch inside and Ill show you a loser."

"Youve got to be lucky to pitch a no-hitter, and if you have good stuff, its easier to be lucky."

"It sounded like somebody firing a pistol in a canyon . . . pow, pow, pow. That was the sound of the fastball popping Rubes mitt in that empty ballpark. We all came in to watch this kid."

"If there was one game I had to win and I could pick any pitcher in any era, Id pick Sandy. Id sit in the bullpen and watch him paint that outside corner with a 95 mile-per-hour fastball and throw curves that looked like they were dropping out of the third deck. Id think, "Im gonna relieve this guy? With my stuff?"

"I became a good pitcher when I stopped trying to make them miss the ball and started trying to make them hit it."

"In the life of the mass-order, the culture of the generality tends to conform to the demands of the average human being. Spirituality decays through being diffused among the masses when knowledge is impoverished in every possible way by rationalisation until it becomes accessible to the crude understanding of all."

"I say this to you because we Spaniards are a forgetful people, because we are used to living for the moment, because we do not look back, because we do not know how to see the chain of heroes, because we do not contemplate the sum of sacrifices."

"Sharon Tate was my best friend. Once, we were roommates. She introduced me to my husband. She was the godmother to my baby daughter who is named for her. In the six years time that I knew her, she never said an unkind word about anyone."

"Long time to see. (VS: Tapion)"

"Most mathematicians prove what they can, von Neumann proves what he wants." Once in a discussion about the rapid growth of mathematics in modern times, von Neumann was heard to remark that whereas thirty years ago a mathematician could grasp all of mathematics, that is impossible today. Someone asked him: "What percentage of all mathematics might a person aspire to understand today?" Von Neumann went into one of his five-second thinking trances, and said: "About 28 percent."

"Children must be free to think in all directions irrespective of the peculiar ideas of parents who often seal their childrens minds with preconceived prejudices and false concepts of past generations. Unless we are very careful, very careful indeed, and very conscientious, there is still great danger that our children may turn out to be the same kind of people we are."