If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.

You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.

Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?

It never hurts to apologize, especially if you don't mean it.

For a hundred years, the owners screwed the players. For 25 years, the players have screwed the owners-they've got 75 years to go.

Statistics are about as interesting as first base coaches.

Lots of people look up to Billy Martin. That's because he just knocked them down.

We were like farm animals compared to today's players who are treated like thoroughbreds.

Forget goals. Value the process.

You're only as smart as your ERA.

How come nobody wants to argue with me? Is it because I'm always so right?

Whenever you don't know someone and you overhear their problems they always sound so trivial.

no poet can know what his poem is going to be like until he has written it.

...writing is not a performance but a generosity.

Prayer means talking over with Jesus everything that happens from morning until night.

The doctrines of grace humble man without degrading him and exalt him without inflating him.

The clock always ticks. There are times you don't hear it, and there are times that you do.

I tell people if I want to make a film I just go make it so you can make yours.

I knew that if the feat was accomplished it must be at a most fearful sacrifice of as brave and gallant soldiers as ever engaged in battle.

Beware of the conversationalist who adds "In other words."

I have lov'd her ever since I saw her; and still I see her beautiful