Bill Lee

“I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out.”

“You have to be a man to play baseball for a living, but you have to have a lot of little boy in you, too.”

“The other day they asked me about mandatory drug testing. I said I believed in it. I said I'd test all the drugs, and just leave the athletes alone.”

“I'm mad at Hank Aaron for deciding to play one more season. I threw him his last home run and thought I'd be remembered forever. Now I'll have to throw him another.”

“Most of the people in the Midwest are fucked up. It's the food. The salt of the earth is eating the wrong kind of salt.”

“When I'm in Boston, I always see a Red Sox game. It's like a religion.”

“I would have been a better pitcher if I'd been a vegetarian.”

“People are too hung up on winning. I can get psyched up for a game regardless of the score.”

“Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and yell at the players.”

“If you're a pitcher, and you're going to play with a hangover, you've got to be a good pitcher.”

“I have my own religion. I'm a follower of myself.”

“I wanted to be a paleontologist, but I couldn't get a grant.”

“All I want is not to be betrayed. I want to be betrayed with dignity. I want to be betrayed for a reason.”