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

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?

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

Writing is like anything – baseball playing, piano playing, sewing, hammering nails. The more you work on it, the better you get. But it seems to take a longer time to get better at writing than hammering nails.

A game of great charm in the adoption of mathematical measurements to the timing of human movements, the exactitudes and adjustments of physical ability to hazardous chance.

I love the MLB app, because I’m a pretty obsessed baseball fan.

I have played professional baseball for over half my life. From the time I picked up a baseball glove, I did not want to put it down.

commenting on baseball players who test positive for steroids: It?s an announced test, so you not only failed the steroid test, you failed the IQ test.

Don’t worry about your individual numbers. Worry about the team. If the team is successful, each of you will be successful, too.

Free agency screws everybody’s allegiances up. Whether it be football, baseball, hockey, basketball, whatever it may be. It’s really hard.

When I won the World Championship in ’72, the United States had an image of, you know, a football country, baseball country, but nobody thought of it as an intellectual country.