When you go to Pittsburgh, you always go to see Clemente. When the Pirates come to town, you always go to his hotel. And we just talk baseball all night,

I'm getting paid by the Pittsburgh Pirates, and I have to go out and make our pitchers better, ... That's what I've been doing for five years, and that's what I'll continue to do.

When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.

Trust me, you have to fight. When people are wrong, you've got to let them know it.

I wondered how they would top the Pirates and skeletons and moonlight, because that's a pretty cool concept.

My major league debut came at old Busch Stadium on Grand Avenue in St. Louis against the Pittsburgh Pirates.