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

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

To give one can of beer to a thousand people is not nearly as much fun as to give 1,000 cans of beer to one guy. You give a thousand people a can of beer and each of them will drink it, smack his lips and go back to watching the game. You give 1,000 cans to one guy, and there is always the outside possibility that 50,000 people will talk about it.

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

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

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.