Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.

If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.

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

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.

If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.

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?