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

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?

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

When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.

Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.

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 was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?