Cy Young

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

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

All us Youngs could throw. I used to kill squirrels with a stone when I was a kid, and my granddad once killed a turkey buzzard on the fly with a rock.

So I write melodies - thirty, forty, fifty - then I cast them off until I have just two or three. If only one is needed, I go see the director and ask him to decide.

Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Well, I actually wrote her a letter a couple of days ago congratulating her. The tone I tried to convey in the letter is, look, you are a part of a great American historical process.