What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.

People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following - but I'll bet Lancelot had more.

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

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.

I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.

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

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.