Quotes About Nolan Ryan

Wheels within wheels was another of Minna's phrases, used exclusively to sneer at our notions of coincidence or conspiracy. If we boys ever dabbled in astonishment at, say, his running into three girls he knew from high school in a row on Court Street, two of whom he'd dated behind each other's backs, he'd bug his eyes and intone, wheels within wheels. No met had ever pitched a no-hitter, but Tom Seaver and Nolan Ryan both pitched them after being traded away---wheels within wheels.

It gave me no chance. He (Nolan Ryan) just blew it (strikeout #5,000) by me. But its an honor. I'll have another paragraph in all the baseball books. I'm already in the books three or four times.

I never faced a pitcher with better stuff than Nolan Ryan.

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

Every hitter likes fastballs, just like everybody likes ice cream. But you don't like it when someone's stuffing it into you by the gallon. That's what it feels like when Nolan Ryan's thrown balls by you.

Nolan Ryan is pitching much better now that he has his curve ball straightened out.

I've got a different perception now and it's really enjoyable to be at this point in your life and be able to watch this.

I like to refer to my years with the Angels as the foundation of my career.

Dick Moss, my agent. Dick became my agent in 1979 when I signed my contract with the Houston Astros.