The Greatest Living Yankee is Whitey Ford, who came out of Aviation High School, which was then in Manhattan, and helped pitch the Yankees to victory in the 1950 World Series when he was 21.
Goose Gossage is a friend of mine, and he's definitely a Hall of Fame pitcher in my mind.
Verlander is a guy every right-handed power pitcher looks up to since the beginning of time.
They could never beat me in Springfield. I loved that old ballpark. If I could have pitched there all my career, I'd be a 300-game winner.
I look at the records, and you don't win the Cy Young seven times or the MVP without being a good player.
You don't face Nolan Ryan without your rest. He's the only guy I go against that makes me go to bed before midnight.
Winning the World Series, winning the MVP, you feel like you have everything.
It was much more fun playing with him than against him. If you wanted one pitcher to start the seventh game of the World Series, which he did in 1945, you'd pick Hal Newhouser.
Clemens and Maddux have defined our era, I believe. And Randy Johnson is right behind them and still going.
It takes 20 victories for people to recognize you as a great pitcher.
Being in the same sentence as Bob Gibson, that's incredible.
I literally love Justin Verlander.
I've only kept one award in my whole life, and it's the coolest thing ever. Mizuno gave me a samurai sword for winning the Cy Young. It's awesome.
I faced Gibson many times and faced Sandy Koufax three times.
