“Ok you guys, pair up in threes!”

Make a game plan and stick to it. Unless it’s not working.

We’re lost, but we’re making good time.

A home opener is always exciting, no matter if it’s home or on the road.

You can observe a lot by just watching.

In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.

Anyone who is popular is bound to be disliked.

Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.

If you’re going to cheat, it’s better if you don’t get caught.

It ain’t the heat, it’s the humility.

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

You wouldn’t have won if we’d beaten you.

I never blame myself when I’m not hitting. I just blame the bat and if it keeps up, I change bats. After all, if I know it isn’t my fault that I’m not hitting, how can I get mad at myself?

I can’t concentrate when I’m thinking.

Failure is just another opportunity to start over.

Almost every Monday I have a charity thing. I like that. I do.

I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.

I grew up in the ’60s, which was a creative time, so it wasn’t that big of a stretch to go from a baseball bat to a guitar to a film camera.

There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981 strike) are the temporary custodians of an enduring public trust.

Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America’s most privileged version of the level field.

Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.