In my 20 years of baseball, I've been misquoted three or four times, and for someone who talks as much as I do, that's incredible.
There are a lot of parallels between being a mutual fund manager and being a general manager. Both in the financial markets and in baseball, we're dealing with a world where uncertainty reigns. We're trying to predict the future performance of human beings. It's a fundamental difficulty for which we both have to account.
My first job after my retirement from baseball was as a narrator for the Eastman Philharmonica.
There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.
Baseball has long been a national pastime that many Americans have cherished.
Baseball hasn't been the national pastime for many years now - no sport is. The national pastime, like it or not, is watching television.
A baseball manager is a necessary evil.
Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.
That was one of the most comfortable things about leaving baseball was to leave the environment. It's very much like a rock star existence - the nightlife, the hotels, lack of privacy... There's a lot of temptations out there. It was nice getting away from it.
That's what makes baseball the best. Nothing matters but winning.
The only reason baseball's numerical touchstones have any significance is that most players - even the game's greats - peter out just barely before they reach them.
I was a baseball player and a football player at Stanford, so I didn't play a lot of golf in college. I really started playing a lot after I turned pro and I had some time in the off-season.
Babe Ruth didn't become her father until 18 months after he married her mother, Claire, on April 17, 1929, Opening Day of the baseball season. Julia was 12 years old.
I think that baseball games are like soap operas. If you watch five in a row, you know enough to get hooked.
I was set to go to Oregon to play college baseball and football.
No former player has owned a team in baseball.
Nowadays, they have more trouble packing hair dryers than baseball equipment.
I liked baseball and sports and Garbage Pail Kids and comic books. I know what it's like to really adore something.
I was a fan of baseball growing up. We played baseball; I used to play in an A&P parking lot. It wasn't always easy to find a good baseball field to play in.
The baseball establishment is permissive about revelry.
