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

I don't need to know where the green is. Where is the golf course?

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

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.

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

Paris ain't much of a town.

What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.