The Giants were supposed to have a new motto, ‘Shut up and deal.’

A manager doesn’t hear the cheers.

Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That’s baseball as it should be played – in God’s own sunshine. And that’s really living.

Any pitcher who throws at a batter and deliberately tries to hit him is a Communist.

Friendships are forgotten when the game begins.

A manager doesn't hear the cheers.

There'll be a man on the moon before Gaylord Perry hits a home run.

The Lord taught me to love everybody, but the last ones I learned to love were the sportswriters.

There are surprisingly few real students of the game in baseball; partly because everybody, my eighty-three year old grandmother included, thinks they learned all there was to know about it at puberty. Baseball is very beguiling that way.

Slow thinkers are part of the game too. Some of these slow thinkers can hit a ball a long way.