“The violence on the field must bounce off a lot of people. But you can go to a ball park on a quiet Tuesday afternoon with only a few thousand people in the place and thoroughly enjoy a one-sided game. Baseball has an aesthetic, intellectual appeal found in no other team sport.”

So it’s been a slow process and it’s taken some patience. That’s why patients are called patients I think – patience is required.

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

So I’m ugly. So what? I never saw anyone hit with his face.

It ain’t over till it’s over

In baseball, you don’t know nothing.

You can’t win all the time. There are guys out there who are better than you.

Records and achievements are made to be broken.

I think Little League is wonderful. It keeps the kids out of the house.

How can a you hit and think at the same time?