When I was a kid I was always an athlete. I played a lot of sports. I played football basketball baseball and soccer.

Now I know you expected me to say that well I just kick back in the rocking chair fished a little bit listened to Willie Nelson tapes and watched old baseball games on the Classic Sports network. And tell you the truth I have done that for maybe about five total minutes.

I was showing early symptoms of becoming a professional baseball man. I was lying to the press.

Baseball is a public trust. Players turn over owners turn over and certain commissioners turn over. But baseball goes on.

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.

I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'

Baseball is drama with an endless run and an ever-changing cast.

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns.

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.