Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.

A fellow has to have faith in God above and Rollie Fingers in the bullpen.

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played - in God's own sunshine. And that's really living.

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.

Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.

The writers want to know were you made your mistake, no how well your curve is breaking.

The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, 'Shut up and deal.'

A manager doesn't hear the cheers.

There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.

The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.

Being rejected by someone you knew you never stood a chance with is like pouring salt on a wound that already has salt in it. It preserves the hurt.

To grow up is to wonder about things

There are books that change our perspectives and books that change our personalities.

She tried to walk softly and wished the trees wouldn't stare at her so.

The AP has only so many reporters, and CNN only has so many cameras, but we've got a world full of people with digital cameras and Internet access.

Do as the beautiful woman: see to your figure and your petticoats. Though, of course, I am not speaking literally.

For total greed, rapacity, heartlessness, and irresponsibility there is nothing to match a nation.

It is a general truism of this world that anything long divided will surely unite, and anything long united will surely divide.

I wouldn't date a girl with a bad attitude. I'm 'Mr. Positive.

Authority has always attracted the lowest elements in the human race