I don't break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.

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 try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

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.

I don't want the natural athlete -- I want a guy who'll go after the hard ones.