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

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

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.

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

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?

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