As soon as you get traded, you kind of start thinking where you're going to live, your family, you have to pack.
And when I retired, trust me, not only did Nolan Ryan, but the entire Ryan family had withdrawals from baseball. And it was tough.
My mum's family are from Blaenau Ffestiniog, the slate town. My grandfather was Elis Humphreys Roberts, so that's quite Welsh isn't it?
You can't help but have your children and your family be part of what you dream about when you dream up a song.
No matter what business you're in, you can't run in place or someone will pass you by. It doesn't matter how many games you've won.
It's a business. If I could make more money down in the zinc mines I'd be mining zinc.
Have the courage to be ignorant of a great number of things, in order to avoid the calamity of being ignorant of everything.
Think about it - pro wrestling as an Olympic sport would be pretty cool. Look at figure skating or gymnastics - what is it? It's a choreographed performance that is judged.
I see dance being used as communication between body and soul, to express what it too deep to find for words.
Baseball people, and that includes myself, are slow to change and accept new ideas. I remember that it took years to persuade them to put numbers on uniforms.
One is called to live nonviolently, even if the change one works for seems impossible.
The Constitution says that government isn't supposed to be infusing religion into our society, and so I asked to have that upheld.
I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.
I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.
The home run took a while to sink in because all I could think of was, 'We beat the Yankees! We beat the Yankees.'
I had only one superstition. I made sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.
I'm sure people will wonder if I could have hit all those home runs had I never taken steroids.
When I hit a home run I usually didn't care where it went. So long as it was a home run was all that mattered.
When you finally go back to your old home, you find it wasn't the old home you missed but your childhood.
Both hope and pessimism are deeply contagious. And no one is more infectious than a leader.
Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.
