Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it.

For a hundred years, the owners screwed the players. For 25 years, the players have screwed the owners-they've got 75 years to go.

If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.

Lots of people look up to Billy Martin. That's because he just knocked them down.

We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.

Forget goals. Value the process.

You're only as smart as your ERA.

How come nobody wants to argue with me? Is it because I'm always so right?

Since when does anyone get the option to do the easiest?

The author & the reader "know" each other: they meet on the bridge of words

Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.

As governor of Ohio, I have an obligation to keep the 11.5 million people in Ohio safe. And we have been very effective with our Joint Terrorism Task Force, being able to make busts.

It's really important to be disruptive and do things that actually are kind of a little scary and bold.

Sometimes to think about why some institutions are stable, it's interesting to go one generation back and look at the author of that stability.

Every call you make, every door you knock, every friend you register to vote could make the difference.

If you want to do something different, you’re going to come up against a lot of naysayers.

For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.

Each move is dictated by the previous one--that is the meaning of order