I don’t know if cortisone is good for you or not. But to take a shot every other ball game is more than I wanted to do and to walk around with a cons… - Sandy Koufax

You've got to be lucky to pitch a no-hitter, and if you have good stuff, it's easier to be lucky.

If I could straighten it out, I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight instead of playing golf.

It is a curious thing that while a home-run hitter is expected to fatten up in the routs, and the pitchers are certainly not supposed to let up, the opposing team becomes furious when a base is stolen after a game is apparently out of reach. Particularly the manager. The theory seems to be that the stolen base is somehow extraneous to the game, that it is an extra effort, a thumbing of the nose. Not on our team it isn't. Stealing bases is Maury's game, and—to a sometimes alarming extent—it was the Dodgers' offense. Maury's game is to get the other team upset, to get them into a frame of mind where they are so eager not to let him show them up that the catcher throws the ball too hastily and the fielder rushes his tag. Result: the hasty throw is off the mark and the infielder neglects to wait for the ball. Maury's game is called Panic!