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A lot of times my wife asks me that question. She always says [she gets] more nervous than [me] on the mound. I tell her when you drive a car and you're the driver, you know what to do, [like when] you go 100 m.p.h. in Venezuela. People in the passenger seat can be scared, but the guy who is driving the car is not scared. It's the same on the mound. I have confidence in my pitches. If I throw good pitches, they will not hit the ball.

Answering in English when asked after a game if he was nervous while pitching in the 8th inning with his team in a 4-1 lead and a man on first with two outs, the No. 3 hitter at the plate, and a pitch count of 120

July 20, 2006
Carlos Zambrano
Chicago Cubs
Pitcher

After the game, a guy was herding some sheep and goats. They started eating all our lines.

Recalling his early years in New Mexico playing "reservation ball" in Navajo country when there wasn't enough money to buy lime for the baselines so they used powdered milk, mixing it with a little water so it wouldn't blow away

José Yepa
Jemez Pirates
Pitcher
Southern Pueblo League

It's hard to put your finger on it. You have to have a dullness of mind and spirit to play here. I went through pyschoanalysis and that helped me deal with my Cubness.

Reflecting back on his years with the Chicago Cubs

James Patrick "Jim" Brosnan
Chicago Cubs
Pitcher

Me too!

Returning to the Yankees' hotel suitably late in the evening and being confronted by manager Casey Stengel who addressed him with, "Drunk again"

Maurice Joseph "Mickey" McDermott
New York Yankees
Pitcher
Contributed by: Rich Bohn

You're playing a game. You never have to get a real job. Seriously. You're being overpaid and underworked. Who wouldn't want that?

Gregory Alan "Greg" Maddux
Atlanta Braves
Pitcher
HOF 2014; a.k.a. "Mad Dog"

I can take a tool belt full of whatever and give it to some of the best pitchers in the game, and they're not going to do the things I did in the postseason. I did nothing different than any other pitcher. I don't feel bad about anything. I'm proud of my achievements and I don't have any regrets. (Pitchers) are totally different than they were ten years ago, or even five years ago. Baseball can say all it wants, but today's baseballs are as hard as rocks. Players are going to make an adjustment so that they can compete.

Laughing at those who believe foreign substances helped him in pitching his team to the 2006 World Series, with specific reference to Game 2 of the Series in which his throwing hand had a brownish smudge in the first inning (it was a shutout and the Tigers' only victory in the series)

February, 2007
Kenneth Scott "Kenny (the Gambler)" Rogers
Detroit Tigers
Pitcher

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

Earl Wilson
Boston Red Sox
Pitcher
Contributed by: Jannie

A lot of things run through your head when you're going in to relieve in a tight spot. One of them was, "Should I spike myself?"

Vernon Louis "Lefty" Gomez
New York Yankees
Pitcher
HOF 1972

"Radio Announcing I Have Did"

Title of a lecture he gave at Southern Methodist University sometime after the St. Louis Board of Education, distressed by the example being set for children by the bizarre syntax and brutalized grammer used in his Cardinals game broadcasting, asked that he be removed from the airwaves

Jay Hanna "Dizzy" Dean
St. Louis Cardinals
Pitcher
HOF 1953

There must be some mistake, I've never been away.

On finishing 2nd in voting for Comeback Player of the Year

Richard Edward "Dick" Donovan
Cleveland Indians
Pitcher

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