"I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want somebody else to go chase it." -Roger Hornsby
"Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed." -Bill Veeck
"If God wanted football played in the spring, he would not have invented baseball." Sam Rutigliano
"The clock doesn't matter in baseball. Time stands still or moves backwards. Theoretically, one game could go on forever." -Herb Caen
"Looking at the ball going over the fence isn't going to help." -Hank Aaron
"I broke in with four hits and the writers promptly decided they had seen the new Ty Cobb. It took me only a few days to correct that impression." -Casey Stengel
"I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out." - Bill Lee