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

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.

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.

It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.

The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.

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.

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