People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following - but I'll bet Lancelot had more.

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

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

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

What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.

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

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.