It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981 strike) are the temporary custodians of an enduring public trust.

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.

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

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