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.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

Casey knew his baseball. He only made it look like he was fooling around. He knew every move that was ever invented and some that we haven't even caught on to yet.

There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can improve a hitter. More than you can improve a fielder. More mistakes are made hitting than in any other part of the game.

I'm human and I've played my butt off for ten years. I'm not a loafer, I'm not a jerk, I'm a baseball player.

Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become

What is sport to the cat is death to the mouse

Well, baseball was my whole life. Nothing's ever been as fun as baseball.

Baseball is a game, yes. It is also a business. But what is most truly is is disguised combat. For all its gentility, its almost leisurely pace, baseball is violence under wraps.