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

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 break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.

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

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.

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.