Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.

What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.

Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.

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.

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