Major league baseball is about the history of the game. Baseball history is so important. It's so much more than money.

Tommy (Lasorda) will eat anything, as long as you pay for it.

You look at a guy who's being brave. He's afraid, or he wouldn't be brave. If he isn't afraid, he's stupid.

Boomer is ... Boomer. That pretty much tells you all you need to know

One win­ter, when I was 12, my older brother Frank (20) said to my father, 'We want you out of the house. We don't want any­thing other than the house we live in. We don't want any­thing from you. Just leave.' And he left.

You don't catch the knuckleball, you defend against it.

Unless you have bad times, you can't appreciate the good times.