The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it.

I am not concerned with being liked or disliked. I am concerned with being respected

How you played in yesterday's game is all that counts.

This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.

I guess you'd call me an independent, since I've never identified myself with one party or another in politics. I always decide my vote by taking as careful a look as I can at the actual candidates and issues themselves, no matter what the party label.

Life is not a spectator sport. If you're going to spend your whole life in the grandstand just watching what goes on, in my opinion you're wasting your life.

Pop flies, in a sense, are just a diversion for a second baseman. Grounders are his stock trade.