Clemente could field the ball in New York and throw out a guy in Pennsylvania.

That is the way this game is -- you win, you lose, you celebrate and you suffer.

In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened…

As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

Good is not good when better is expected.

The roar of the crowd has always been the sweetest music. It's intoxicating.

Andre Dawson has a bruised knee and is listed as day-to-day. Aren't we all?

It's a wonderful feeling to be a bridge to the past and to unite generations. The sport of baseball does that, and I am just a part of it.

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

If you have a sombrero, throw it to the sky!

Writers often torture themselves trying to get the words right. Sometimes you must lower your expectations and just finish it.

Better off dead than giving in

There is no law, divine or human, that the saloon respects.

Not all birds can fly. What separates the flyers from the walkers is the ability to take off.

Experience is always a trustworthy guide; it may not tell you everything, but it never lies.

I claim that in losing the spinning wheel we lost our left lung.

Your job is to take notes, my job is to make that impossible.

Many people surrender what is possible for what is comfortable.

Frank nodded grimly. “Well…any goddess who throws a Ding Dong at a giant can’t be all bad. Let’s go.

The problem with having a job is that it gets in the way of getting rich.