"When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football"

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

"In life, as in football, you won't go far unless you know where the goalposts are"

"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"

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

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

"I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball"