No baseball pitcher would be worth a darn without a catcher who could handle the hot fastball.

Being with a woman all night never hurt no professional baseball player. It's staying up all night looking for a woman that does him in.

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

I am dead set against free agency. It can ruin baseball.

You shouldn't have any betting in the locker room at all, whether it's baseball or it's horses. You can't beat the horses. You can't beat any kind of gambling because they have the odds.

Is it in the best interest of baseball to sell beer in the ninth inning? Probably not. The rule has got to be more clearly defined. And then some process should be set up where the judge is not also the appeals judge.

Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.

My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.

People like us are afraid to leave ball. What else is there to do? When baseball has been your whole life, you can't think about a future without it, so you hang on as long as you can.

Baseball for me was instinctive, born within me, given to me as a gift from God.

Playing baseball was my dream, and no amount of money could sway my opinion.

I found myself in a race with Mother Nature to play as much baseball as I could before she forced me to stop.

To me, baseball has always been a reflection of life. Like life, it adjusts. It survives everything.

If you're a singer you lose your voice. A baseball player loses his arm. A writer gets more knowledge, and if he's good, the older he gets, the better he writes.

If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.