I was not able to understand how it could be right to pay an actor, or a singer, or an instrumentalist for entertaining the public and wrong to pay a ball player for doing exactly the same thing.

Baseball gives ... a growing boy self-poise and self-reliance. Baseball is a man maker.

Everything is possible to him that dares.

The genius of our institutions is democratic - baseball is a democratic game.

Professional baseball is on the wane. Salaries must come down or the interest of the public must be increased in some way.

Every time a champion makes a decision they have a chance to learn something new, regardless of the outcome.

Lightly, lightly, very lightly, A wind passes very lightlyAnd goes away, always very lightly.And I don’t know what I thinkAnd I don’t want to know.

He hath great neede of a foole, that plaies the foole himselfe.

Pessimism and hopelessness are two assassins that have been hired by very ourselves to kill ourselves!

Necessity is often the mother of balls

When I was thirteen I only wanted to be a drummer.

Gentrification and consumerism... have destroyed the character of my favorite American haunts, like North Beach, Berkeley, Venice and Aspen.

Of the seven deadly sins, lust is definitely the pick of the litter.

I want to run with the best, that's how I've always lived.

Ive heard of nothing coming from nothing, but Ive never heard of absolutely nothing coming from hard work.