"If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball"

"Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian"

"A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings"

"That other saying, I'm a part of all that I have met, I think that would have to begin with my wonderful parents back in Atlanta when I was a youngster five years old I was tongue tied"

"These days baseball is different. You come to spring training, you get your legs ready, you arms loose, your agents ready, your lawyer lined up"

"I'm a very lucky guy. I had so many people help me over the years that I never had many problems. If I had a problem, I could sit down with someone and they would explain the problem to me, and the problem become like a baseball game"

"Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie"

"The way I figured it, I was even with baseball and baseball with me. The game had done much for me, and I had done much for it"

"Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game"

"A person like myself, born and raised in the inner city of Atlanta, Georgia, to lower-middle-class parents. But I had the opportunity to get an education, to go and earn a commission in the United States Army, to serve for 22 years, to lead men and women in combat"

"Playing baseball for a living is like having a license to steal"