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.

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.

Three strikes, you're out. I don't care if you hire Edward Bennett Williams to defend you; three strikes, you're still out. Baseball is an island of stability in an unstable world.

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.

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

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

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