There's 29.000 people in the ballpark, and a million butterflies.

Almost all of us growing up have played baseball on some level. It has an inside track with people. It has a unifying effect.

As long as you live keep smiling because it brightens everybody's day.

It's a wonderful feeling being a bridge to the past and unite generations.

Statistics are used much like a drunk uses a lamppost: for support, not illumination.

One of my favorite expressions ever uttered by a player is Roy Campanella's line about how, in order to be a major-league player, you have to have a lot of little boy in you.