Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet..

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

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats..

When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws poi….

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball..

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….

To give one can of beer to a thousand people is not nearly as much fun as to give 1,000 cans of beer to one guy. You give a thousand people a can of ….

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….

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

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

I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing..

What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I woul….

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

It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted..

Suffering is overated..

The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between..

If you can't outsmart people, outwork them..

Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed.

Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width..

Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction..