All baseball fans can be divided into two groups: those who come to batting practice and the others. Only those in the first category have much chance of amounting to anything.

More than any other American sport, baseball creates the magnetic, addictive illusion that it can almost be understood.

There is no substitute for excellence. Not even success.

Baseball is really two sports -- the summer game and the autumn game. One is the leisurely pastime of our national mythology. The other is not so gentle.

Decades after a person has stopped collecting bubble gum cards, he can still discover himself collecting ballparks... their smells, their special seasons, their moods.

Baseball means Spring's Here. Football means Winter's Coming.

Any person claiming to be a baseball fan who does not also claim to have invented the quickest, simplest and most complete method of keeping score probably is a fraud.

I may be the only golfer never to have broken a single putter, if you don't count the one I twisted into a loop and threw into a bush.

Baseball is religion without the mischief.

Football is played best full of adrenaline and anger. Moderation seldom finds a place. Almost every act of baseball is a blending of effort and control; too much of either is fatal.

Baseball is to our everyday experience what poetry often is to common speech — a slightly elevated and concentrated form.

Yet food is something that is taken for granted by most world leaders despite the fact that more than half of the population of the world is hungry.

Kill no more pigeons than you can eat.

Horses are very sensitive and perceptive. You don't have to be physical with them.

It's obvious that things aren't going well over there. This is a war based on lies.

The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.

A math lecture without a proof is like a movie without a love scene. This talk has two proofs.

Those who are prepared to die are most prepared to live.

This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power To learn to bear is easier than to shun.

American Made is not just an event. It's a movement to spotlight and support the next generation of creative entrepreneurs who are turning their passion for making into thriving small businesses.

If I were really, truly in love with someone who was truly in love with me, then I would get married, but that would be the only reason I'd get married.