“How can you not 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.

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.

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.