Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic, every failing is seen…

- Ernie Harwell

I just have faith. It's just there. It's not any big deal.

- Ernie Harwell

Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in lif…

- Ernie Harwell

I'd like to be remembered as someone who showed up for the job. I consider myself a worker.

- Ernie Harwell

I've found that if you wear a beret, people think you're either a cabdriver or a producer of dirty movies.

- Ernie Harwell

I look on life as a joyous adventure.

- Ernie Harwell

Baseball is just a game, as simple as a ball and bat, yet as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost e…

- Ernie Harwell

In baseball, democracy shines its clearest. The only race that matters is the race to the bag. The creed is the rule book. And color, merely somethin…

- Ernie Harwell

So much happened (in 1968) it was hard to keep up with everything. We had Denny McLain's thirty-one victories, Gates Brown's great pinch-hitting in t…

- Ernie Harwell