Cy Young

One of the fellows called me 'Cyclone' but finally shortened it to 'Cy' and its been that ever since.

Gosh, all a kid has to do these days is spit straight and he gets forty-thousand dollars to sign.

A pitcher's got to be good and he's got to be lucky to get a no hit game.

Most of the time, if you ask a kid who's their best friend, it's usually a classmate or their neighbor or something, but for me, it was my granddad. Everybody knew him - they called him Mr. Jones.

The Carrion Crow and Turkey-Buzzard possess great power of recollection, so as to recognise at a great distance a person who has shot at them, and even the horse on which he rides.

People say, 'Where do you live?' and I say that theoretically, I live in London, but basically that's just where I go to change my suitcase. Otherwise, I'm always flying somewhere.