An almost inexorable baseball law: A Red Sox ship with a single leak will always find a way to sink No team is worshipped with such a perverse sense of fatality.

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

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.

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.

Sometimes violence is necessary to prevent even more violence, ” I concluded, almost as if it were an epiphany.

He could only do rowdy because he felt what I felt: that whip-crack unleashing that comes when you meet the person who frees you

I believe the preservation of the home in the future lies almost entirely in the hands of men.

Those who have been eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, and the arts have all had tendencies toward melancholia.

The Unbookables are supposed to be unbookable. That's what it's all about.

There is no such thing as a person that nothing has happened to, and each persons story is as different as his fingertips.

God uses no one until He first puts them through the storm. The greater your mission, the greater your storm.

Pants get shiny even on a throne.

I take a deep breath and sidestep my fear and begin speaking from the place where beauty and bravery meet--within the chambers of a quivering heart.

Let go of what has passed. Let go of what may come. Let go of what is happening now. Don't try to figure anything out. Don't try to make anything happen. Relax, right now, and rest.