You know this baseball game of ours comes up from the youth - that means the boys. And after you've been a boy, and grow up to know how to play ball, then you come to the boys you see representing themselves today in our national pastime.

I didn't mean to hit the umpire with the dirt, but I did mean to hit that bastard in the stands.

Every Strike is one step closer to a Home Run

I only have one superstition: I make sure to touch all the bases when I hit a home run.

If it wasn't for baseball, I'd be in either the penitentiary or the cemetery.

I'll promise to go easier on drinking and to get to bed earlier, but not for you, fifty thousand dollars, or two-hundred and fifty thousand dollars will I give up women. They're too much fun.

Baseball changes through the years. It gets milder.