“People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.”  - Rogers Hornsby

“You gotta be a man to play baseball for a living, but you gotta have a lot of little boy in you, too.” - Roy Campanella

“Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.” - Jim Murray

“Baseball was made for kids.  Grown-ups only screw it up.” - Bob Lemon