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.

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.

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.

True biblical love is a selfless commitment of one's body, soul, and spirit to the betterment of the other person.

So long as they speak your name, you shall never die.

I realize that I am not a journalist. So anything I say is not important.

To me defeat in anything is merely temporary. Defeat simply tells me that something is wrong in my doing; it is a path leading to success and truth.

Сops have a tough job and sometimes it takes you being tough.

will you stop trying to be brave! It's me, Mama! You can be honest with me." -Hetty

I think the thing you always got to keep in mind, you know, hockey is a game of one-on-one battles.

Public Servant: Persons chosen by the people to distribute the graft.

You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.

Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.