I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.

The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.

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.

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?

Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.

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.