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"Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it."
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"I had never been to the playoffs, and it was exciting. The fans went through the roof. They were excited about the whole team. It was great to be traded to a city like Chicago, which was a lot like Boston."
Boston
"When I started finishing games and coming off the field shaking hands, it was a beautiful thing. I mean, you start seeing that you're an important part of the team."
Sports
"I think today the players are too nice to one another, but that might change with the unbalanced schedule, with teams playing each other more and more. When you face each other that much, with that much at stake, something's bound to happen."
Change
"It took me a few years to realize that throwing harder wasn't always better."
Pitching
"I was a starter and did some good things there, and then I got a chance to prove myself as a closer. Because of that opportunity, I was blessed with the honor of being elected to the Hall of Fame."
Opportunity
"Then you figure out that if you don't throw it as hard as you can, you can put it where you want. It's more important where you put it."
Want
"I'm proud of the fact that I pitched almost 3,300 innings."
Fact
"Pitching... sometimes I did so poorly, it brought me to tears."
Performance
"I always had the attitude that I wanted to throw a no-hitter every game."
Attitude
"My career spanned the era when relievers started to become more important."
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"If you want to be happy, be."
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"When you focus on want, you become an endless cycle of wants."
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"Only those who want everything done for them are bored."
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"I do want to go another way - to write something completely different."
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"If you want to be loved, be lovable."
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"Don't say "the White House wants." Buildings can't want."
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"I don't want any vegetables, thank you. I paid for the cow to eat them for me."
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"I didn't want it to be a book that made pronouncements."
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"I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become."
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"Star Trek has brought so much of what I want within my grasp."
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