To give one can of beer to a thousand people is not nearly as much fun as to give 1,000 cans of beer to one guy. You give a thousand people a can of beer and each of them will drink it, smack his lips and go back to watching the game. You give 1,000 cans to one guy, and there is always the outside possibility that 50,000 people will talk about it.

Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed

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

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.

The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.