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

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

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 Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.

Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.