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 a boy's game that makes grown men cry.

When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.

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

I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.

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.

If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.