Baseball is religion without the mischief.

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.

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.

i told you he'd freak out, she siad. didn't i?ah, the i told you so, jace said. always a classy move

Deep-versed in books And shallow in himself.

Real leaders ask hard questions and knock people out of their comfort zones and then manage the resulting distress.

You cannot describe the universe completely with any accuracy unless you're willing to admit that it's both physical and mental in nature.

To be fond of learning is near to wisdom.

...I have always lived on contrasts! To me the only death is monotony. Beware of monotony; it's the mother of all the deadly sins.

Expression alone can invest beauty with supreme and lasting command over the eye.

Shakespeare is dangerous to young poets; they cannot but reproduce him, while they fancy that they produce themselves.

I'm the lyrical vendor, hip-hop is my shop

In meditative prayer, one thinks and speaks not only with the mind and lips, but in a certain sense with one's whole being... All good meditative prayer is a conversation of our entire self to God.