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

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.

I don't break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.

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

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

When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.