Suffering is overated.

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.

Without God, life has no purpose, and without purpose, life has no meaning. Without meaning, life has no significance or hope.

...joy we find when we realize God's deep desire to partner with everyday, normal people using their talents to do good.

I've taken it from feminist friends, and I've taken it from lefty friends too. But that reassures me. If the right is attacking us and the left is attacking us, that's exactly where we want to be.

Im the lamest lame duck there could be.

I just try to be the best Catholic.

Flesh goes on pleasuring us, and humiliating us, right to the end.

Reality is far more complex and messy than many of the grander themes and explanations would have us believe.

The intelligent person depends on his own insight; he trusts his own being. He loves and respects himself.

Thinking is my fighting.

The color of the king doth come and go, Between his purpose and his conscience, Like heralds 'twixt two dreadful battles set: His passion is so ripe, it needs must break.