Bob Uecker

How do you catch a knuckleball? You wait until it stops rolling, then go pick it up.

I had slumps that lasted into the winter.

Hey, I think it's easy for guys to hit .300 and stay in the big leagues. Hit .200 and try to stick around as long as I did; I think it's a much greater accomplishment. That's hard.

While writing books about the past, I think about the present. It's not intentional, but somehow my books end up being written under the sign of a political mood.

Live Below the Line raises real money to help the world's poorest people, but it is also a symbolic demonstration aimed at highlighting - not replicating - the plight of the world's poor.

My first career ambitions involved turning into a boy; I intended to be either a railway guard or a knight errant.