“It’s hard not to be romantic about baseball”

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.

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.

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

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

I hear the cheers when they roared and the jeers when they echoed.

A man ought to get all he can earn. A man who knows he’s making money for other people ought to get some of the profit he brings in. Don’t make any difference if it’s baseball or a bank or a vaudeville show. It’s business, I tell you. There ain’t no sentiment to it. Forget that stuff.

I said I’m going to hit the next one right over the flagpole. God must have been with me.

I don’t blame the players today for the money. I blame the owners. They started it. They wanna give it to ’em? More power to ’em.

Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical.

Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good, too.