What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details.

Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything.

If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.

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

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.