“A no-hitter is a freaky thing,' Tweet said. 'Most of the greatest pitchers never pitched one. It's a combination of a lot of little accidents.”

“The goal was never to bear the competition, or to make a lot of money. It was to do the greatest thing possible, or even a little greater”

“I play my position, heart held behind my back-- I'm the pitcher.. sometimes I throw them no hitters..”

“It might be said of Miss [Djuna] Barnes,” [T.S. Eliot] wrote, “who is incontestably one of the most original writers of our time, that never has so much genius been combined with so little talent.”

“They say a little knowledge is a dangerous thing, but it's not one half so bad as a lot of ignorance.”

“True, [Gary Nolan] might not strike fear into the hearts of all you free-swinging power hitters out there—at least not in the same way as, say, Tom Seaver … but without question he was one of the most talented pitchers in baseball during the Big Red Machine era, and except for countless injuries that plagued him year after year he’d have the numbers and awards to back up that claim.”