“When you’re scoring five goals in one Champions League match, there’s no value that’s too high.”

When your enemy’s making mistakes, don’t interrupt him.

Our generation is realistic, for we have come to know man as he really is. After all, man is that being who invented the gas chambers of Auschwitz; however, he is also that being who entered those gas chambers upright, with the Lord’s Prayer or the Shema Yisrael on his lips.

It’s hard not to be romantic about baseball

The idea that I [should] trust my eyes more than the stats, I don’t buy that because I’ve seen magicians pull rabbits out of hats and I know that the rabbit’s not in there.

How can you not be romantic about baseball?

You have to face reality some time. But there’s no sense in facing it until somebody forces you to.

The friendships of the world are oft confederacies in vice, or leagues of pleasures.

We’re going to be the best in the league at something. We’re deep in anthem singers.

Big league defense is going to get outs most times.

A ball player has to be kept hungry to become a big leaguer. That’s why no boy from a rich family has ever made the big leagues.

Everything has been such a whirlwind ever since I stepped foot in the league and everything has been like a dream, so I’m just blessed to be in this position.

If anyone wants to know why three kids in one family made it to the big leagues they just had to know how we helped each other and how much we practiced back then. We did it every minute we could.

Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don’t belong there.

After I got that hit off Satchel (Paige), I knew I was ready for the big leagues.