Quotes

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.