Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the last guy to hit .400.

They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.

By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

No one can ever see the ball hit the bat because it's physically impossible to focus your eyes that way. However, when I hit the ball especially hard, I could smell the leather start to burn as it struck the wooden bat.

All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.