Baseball is a soap opera that plays out day after day, one that a lot of elderly women watch until the characters and the plot becomes a part of their life. She got to enjoy the personal side of the players. They were her kids. The Braves were her family.

The best thing about growing older is that it takes such a long time.

I love to go to Washington - if only to be near my money.

It's a wonderful way to live, and not a bad way to go, either. The average Frenchman is still smiling three months after he's dead.

I was lucky, you know, I always had a beautiful girl and the money was good. Although I would have done the whole thing over for, oh, perhaps half.

A bank is a place that will lend you money if you can prove that you don't need it.

My secret for staying young is good food, plenty of rest, and a makeup man with a spray gun.