If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?

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.

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.

I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.

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

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