I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.

Three strikes, you're out. I don't care if you hire Edward Bennett Williams to defend you; three strikes, you're still out. Baseball is an island of stability in an unstable world.

I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.

I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done.

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.

People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following - but I'll bet Lancelot had more.