People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following - but I'll bet Lancelot had more.

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.

If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.

Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?

I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done.

Perhaps our suffering is part of our humanity.

Rain. Tumble, bumble and, fall on me. Any old day, any old way. Come for a visit, or come for a stay. Rain, rain, don't go away.

I have not one shred of anger in my heart against Netanyahu or his wife.

laws and conditions appropriate to a mechanical creation, against this I raise my sword-pen.

All wealth comes from adding value, from producing more, better, cheaper, faster, and easier than someone else.

It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere.

I think people are just intrigued with the supernatural. I mean, I know that I am. It's something that I find very interesting.

That will to love is very powerful. But it doesn't always win.

Let us ask what is best - not what is customary. Let us love temperance - let us be just - let us refrain from bloodshed.

Overnight success stories take a long time.