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

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.

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.

Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out inside.

I generally wade in blind and trust to fate and instinct to see me through.

Music, it's an emotion; if you're just a puppet, how can you put your soul in what you do? For my part, I believe that I put my soul to it, so I get angry when people think that what I do is plastic.

In life, if you have an enthusiasm for what they call 'good manners,' sometimes people don't quite believe you. I've had that once or twice before, where they assume you can't be for real.

All the people that criticised me should eat their words.

Men fearing their innate power, pushed woman back into slavery.

If a donkey bray at you, don't bray at him.

We're having the first computer-generated comic strip in the United States.

Mercy, mercy me, things ain't what they used to be.