I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.

Baseball is like church. Many attend few understand.

I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

To some it's a six-pack, to me it's a "support group". Salvation in a can!

Buy a steak for a player on another club after the game, but don't even speak to him on the field. Get out there and beat them to death.

Win any way as long as you can get away with it. Nice guys finish last.

Give me some scratching, diving, hungry ballplayers who come to kill you.

I believe in rules. Sure I do. If there weren't any rules, how could you break them?

I never did say that you can't be a nice guy and win. I said that if I was playing third base and my mother rounded third with the winning run, I'd trip her up.

You don't save a pitcher for tomorrow. Tomorrow it may rain.

Time itself is only as real as your own mental discrimination between the revelation and concealment of the one Light.

A life of reaction is a life of slavery intellectually and spiritually. One must fight for a life of action not reaction.

My dad gave me the gene to enjoy cooking, and to enjoy consuming good food and wine.

You must capture and keep the heart of the original and supremely able man before his brain can do its best.

All wars are civil ones; for it is still man spilling his own blood, tearing out his own bowels.

Make of the Silence your to-do tasks, of the compassion your wealth and of the meditation your beggar's bowl.

What is easy to do is also easy not to do.

You cannot change the world if you don't change your own world first.

I think the rising and falling popularity of areas like hard SF and far-future SF is, to a considerable extent, the same as any other fashion.