Wait until Tommy Lasorda meets the Lord and finds out He's wearing pinstripes

I reckon I tried everything on the old apple, but salt and pepper and chocolate sauce topping.

The trouble with baseball is that it is not played the year round.

I'd always have it (grease( in at least two places, in case the umpires would ask me to wipe one off. I never wanted to be caught out there with anything though, it wouldn't be professional.

They'll put a man on the moon before I hit a home run.

Going back down to the minors is the toughest thing to handle in baseball.

There is a difference between jaywalking and grand larceny.

Primarily, every rule change over the past ten years has been against the pitchers - lowering the mound and the designated hitter.

Do for yourself or do without.

We’re alive!” Swedish told her. “I did not see that coming.

as the shadows assumeshapesI fight the slowretreatnowmy once-promisedwindlingdwindlingnowlighting new cigarettespouring moredrinksit has been a beautifulfightstillis.

Knowledge is realizing that the street is one way; wisdom is looking in both directions anyway.

Nothing is so conformable to reason as to disavow reason.

I am not arguing with you - I am telling you.

This only is charity, to do all, all that we can.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Human concepts, no matter how grand they may appear, have limitations.

In a world of upward mobility, choose downward servility.

Many people surrender what is possible for what is comfortable.