Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.

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.

God is a lot of things to a lot of people but I don’t think he is a cheap party host with limited grace to give out.

The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.

The battle outside raging will soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.

As I continued through Cicero's pages, I found much more material celebrating my way of life.

I have a very sedate life. How often do you see me at a bar in Boulder, Peter? You tell me. I like Boulder. We just don't live that way.

No man can love a second time the person whom he has once truly ceased to love.

I don't vote. We're led to believe we're free through the exercise of ineffective freedoms.

Councell breakes not the head.

Science fiction let me do both. It let me look into science and stick my nose in everywhere.

The possibility that Saddam Hussein will use his biological and chemical weapons to attack us, directly or in concert with terrorists, cannot be dismissed.