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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed
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?
Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.
What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.
To give one can of beer to a thousand people is not nearly as much fun as to give 1,000 cans of beer to one guy. You give a thousand people a can of beer and each of them will drink it, smack his lips and go back to watching the game. You give 1,000 cans to one guy, and there is always the outside possibility that 50,000 people will talk about it.
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.
Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.
Suffering is overated.
People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following - but I'll bet Lancelot had more.
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.
If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.
If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided.
I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details.
I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.
I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.
An island of surety in a changing world.
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.
Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything.