What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-clean….

People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following - but I'll ….

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings..

I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I….

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?.

I don't want the natural athlete -- I want a guy who'll go after the hard ones..

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

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..

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

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

An island of surety in a changing world..

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 ….

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

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

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

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

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

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

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..

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