I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.

Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.

The thread connecting one person, one event, to another exists only in the imagination.

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Inspiring qualities make some people to feel a little uneasy.

Pity costs nothin' and ain't worth nothin'.

Only man clogs his happiness with care destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

I tend to turn down roles that are too much like me, what I think is most like me anyhow, because I'm me all the time and I'm sick of it.

Where the mind goes, the man follows.

I'm not talking about reforming #Islam..it is to reform the #Muslim minds & the Muslim understandings of the texts.