I don't want the natural athlete -- I want a guy who'll go after the hard ones.

If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.

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

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.

Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything.

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

An island of surety in a changing world.