Any sportswriter who thinks the world is no bigger than the outfield fence in not only a bad citizen, but also a lousy sportswriter.

Ninety feet between home plate and first base may be the closest man has ever come to perfection.

Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.

It is well known that the older a man grows, the faster he could run as a boy.

Now it is done. Now the story ends. And there is no way to tell it. The art of fiction is dead. Reality has strangled invention.

I have known writers who paid no damned attention whatever to the rules of grammar and rhetoric and somehow made the language behave for them.

Today's game is always different from yesterday's game.

It was an ideal day for football - too cold for the spectators and too cold for the players.

Baseball is a dull game only for those with dull minds.

Dying is no big deal. Living is the trick.

Unlike the normal pattern, I know I have grown more liberal as I've grown older. I have become more convinced that there is room for improvement in the world.

There can be no Positive result from a Negative attitude. Think Positive. Live Positive.

Falling in love is one of most beautiful emotions one can feel. You haven’t lived your life, if you haven’t loved.

An ‘I don’t care’ attitude is a reflection of a feeble minded individual with a personality disorder

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

I want to empower women.

What women want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What men want: Tickets to the World Series.

Indifference is the acid of life. It erodes all the spirit that's in us and makes us useless to anyone else. We all have to stand for something, or our souls cease to breathe.

It's a big thing to feel like you're doing something that's actually affecting people.

No one paid attention to my offense. So having 2,000 hits is one of the things that is an accomplishment.

I've lived enough of my life story to know this- Fate writes the book, but you make the movie.