I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done.

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

Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.

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 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?

Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.

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.