“I eye Chuy like a pitcher in baseball does when a guy leads too far off base.”
“poets are like baseball pitchers. both have their moments. the intervals are the tough things.”
“When you come [to a baseball game] in person, you direct your own focus, you know? The TV or the radio men, they might focus on the pitcher when you want to see what first base is doing; and you don't have any choice but to accept it.”
“The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game.”
“When I was young, I was so interested in baseball that my family was afraid I'd waste my life and be a pitcher. Later they were afraid I'd waste my life and be a poet. They were right.”
“You're so far off base this time you can't even see the base!”