You gotta keep the ball off the fat part of the bat.

It's funny what a few no-hitters do for a body.

Baseball is the most perfect of games, solid, true, pure and precious as diamonds. If only life were so simple. Within the baselines anything can happen. Tides can reverse; oceans can open. That's why they say, we don't stop playing because we get old. We get old because we stop playing.

The only change is that baseball has turned Paige from a second class citizen to a second class immortal.

One time he (Cool Papa Bell) hit a line drive right past my ear. I turned around and saw the ball hit his ass sliding into second.

Money and women. They're two of the strongest things in the world. The things you do for a woman you wouldn't do for anything else. Same with money.

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.