"There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball"

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

"In the depth of winter I finally learned that there was in me an invincible summer"

"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"

"As sure as the spring will follow the winter, prosperity and economic growth will follow recession"

"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"

"We are all treading the vanishing road of a song in the air, the vanishing road of the spring flowers and the winter snows, the vanishing roads of the winds and the streams, the vanishing road of beloved faces"

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

"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"

"Only in baseball can a team player be a pure individualist first and a team player second, within the rules and spirit of the game"