"I don't like American football. I think it's boring and ridiculous and predictable. But baseball is very beautiful. It's played on a diamond"

"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"

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

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

"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"

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