I don't want the natural athlete -- I want a guy who'll go after the hard ones.
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.
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.