“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.” |
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 do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing. |
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 try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity. |
I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous. |
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 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? |
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too? |
Not really -- they lean towards cash. |
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people. |
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball. |
The White Sox had long ago tested the loyalty of their rooters; the weak and faint of heart had fallen by the wayside and only the strong, the dedicated and the masochistic remained. If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan freed a man from any other form of penance. |
There are only two seasons -- winter and Baseball. |
We lived and died on every pitch, ... This was the most exciting year, and, let me tell you, I have seen a lot of teams. |