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

Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.

I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.

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

Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.

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.

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