"Baseball is what we were, and football is what we have become"

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

"In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are"

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

"The football season is like pain. You forget how terrible it is until it seizes you again"

"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"

"Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football"

"You may not win the Super Bowl. Your kids may not go on to be doctors and lawyers and everything may not go perfectly. That doesn't mean it was a bad plan or the wrong thing. It's just like a football season. Everything's not going to go perfect"

"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"

"Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at the touch, nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening"

"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"