"I was lucky enough to have the talent to play baseball. That's how I treated my career. I didn't think I was anybody special, anybody different"

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

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

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

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

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

"Liquid architecture. It's like jazz - you improvise, you work together, you play off each other, you make something, they make something. And I think it's a way of - for me, it's a way of trying to understand the city, and what might happen in the city"

"With foxes we must play the fox"

"Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword"

"Jazz vision is the fusion of music and art a real paradox of same-yet different. Here we play in exchanges, like the hardness of the key of c# major and from the softness of Db major - capturing, reflecting and improvising"

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