Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as naive.

This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.

To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.