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.

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.

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.

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

I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.

The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.