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

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?

If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.

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

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

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.

Suffering is overated.