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.

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.

Just take the ball and throw it where you want to. Throw strikes. Home plate don't move.

You win a few, you lose a few. Some get rained out. But you got to dress for all of them.

If you tell a lie, always rehearse it. If it don't sound good to you, it won't sound good to anybody.

Go light on the vices, such as carrying on in society. The social life ain't restful. Avoid running at all times. Don't look back. Something may be gaining on you.

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