I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

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.

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.

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

I don't want the natural athlete -- I want a guy who'll go after the hard ones.

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.