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

Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.

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.

When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.

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.

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

I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.