“That's a no-brainer. He's one of the best baseball men I've been around. When you get somebody of that quality that happens to be such a close friend, that's even nicer.”
Jim Leyland
“Saying that men talk about baseball in order to avoid talking about their feelings is the same as saying that women talk about their feelings in order to avoid talking about baseball”
Deborah Tannen
“Baseball is a red-blooded sport for red-blooded men. It's no pink tea, and mollycoddles had better stay out. It's a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest.”
Ty Cobb
“I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.”
Walt Whitman
“Studio executives are intelligent, brutally overworked men and women who share one thing in common with baseball managers: they wake up every morning of the world with the knowledge that sooner or later they're going to get fired.”
William Goldman
“A major league baseball team is a collection of 25 youngish men who have made the major leagues and discovered that in spite of it, life remains distressingly short of ideal.”
Roger Kahn
“Baseball players are smarter than football players. How often do you see a baseball team penalized for too many men on the field?”
Jim Bouton
