Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress..

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people..

Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry..

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere..

I don't break the rules. I merely test their elasticity..

When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life..

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off..

I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity..

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball..

Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts..

I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done..

I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity..

If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance..

I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details..

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous..

Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything..

An island of surety in a changing world..

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles..

The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the ….

If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse..

Three strikes, you're out. I don't care if you hire Edward Bennett Williams to defend you; three strikes, you're still out. Baseball is an island of ….