"I am convinced that God wanted me to be a baseball player"

"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"

"You know that a given in life in human nature, is that at a sporting event, a baseball game, a football game, you never introduce a politician, is because he'll be booed. I don't care if he's the most beloved person in the world, its part of the game"

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

"Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended"

"Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things"

"That's how easy baseball was for me. I'm not trying to brag or anything, but I had the knowledge before I became a professional baseball player to do all these things and know what each guy would hit"

"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"

"I think I was the best baseball player I ever saw"

"Defense to me is the key to playing baseball"

"The greatest challenge I think is adjusting to not playing baseball. The reason for that is I had to come out of baseball and come into the business world, not being a college graduate, not being educated to come into the business world the way I should have"