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.

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.

Every day you have to be open to like things you’ve never liked before. Every day you have to realize you can’t get too comfortable.

That's what it means to be an American. To be free to love who and what you want, and to keep a lot in your heart at once.

You know you have arrived when you have stopped caring about the destination

There is no way to deter old age from its grim duty, but a life of accomplishments makes up in quality for what it cannot add in quantity.

Taste refers to the past, imagination to the future.

I still get my news from the newspaper in the morning. I just have an affection for paper, and that's no secret, I guess.

Don't stare into a mirror when you are trying to solve a problem.

Every director should take an acting class.

This is misguided and toxic and ultimately subverts the contagious spread of Jesus' message of love, peace, forgiveness and joy that our world desperately needs to hear.

You know I'm always in trouble.