I really love baseball. The guys and the game, and I love the challenge of describing things.

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!

If the saints fails to declare the truth, the Holy Spirit shall teach true words of God.

less small talk and more real talk.

You keep out of my bed, ” said Danny, for he knew that Joe Portagee had come to stay. The way he sat in a chair and crossed his knees had an appearance of permanence.

My idea of government support was, you supply me with hospitals, schools and the environment to do well and that will do me fine. But do not poke your nose in my business.

ARSENIC, n. A kind of cosmetic greatly affected by the ladies, whom it greatly affects in turn.

Didn't we settle contraception & affirmative action? If the GOP keep going backwards they'll soon be debating slavery.

Faced with destruction, the Jewish people survived.

If America taught me anything, it's that quitting is right up there with pissing in the Girl Scouts' lemonade jar.

Everyone is a comedy. If people are laughing at you, they just don't quite understand the joke that is themselves.

I wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed between us.