"I want to play music when I want, write a song if I want or watch a baseball game if I want"

"Music is my religion"

"Music is the shorthand of emotion"

"If you're going to play the game properly, you'd better know every rule"

"My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary"

"It took me seventeen years to get three thousand hits in baseball. I did it in one afternoon on the golf course"

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

"The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast"

"The true object of all human life is play. Earth is a task garden; heaven is a playground"

"If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away"

"Music is the universal language of mankind"