- The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
- To compare baseball with other team games is to say the Hope Diamond is a nice chunk of carbon. The endless variety of physical and mental skills demanded by baseball is both uncomparable and incomparable.
- I have discovered, in twenty years of moving around a ball park, 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 pointy objects at me.
- 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.
- My friends are the fans, not the owners. Dignity isn't my suit of clothes.
- 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 wanted to do?
- The Mets achieved total incompetence in a single year, while the Browns worked industriously for almost a decade to gain equal proficiency.
- It isn't the high price of stars that is expensive, it's the high price of mediocrity.
- We can't always guarantee the ball game is going to be good; but we can guarantee the fan will have fun."
- Sometimes the best trades are the ones you never make.
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