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.

Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.

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 try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

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.

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.