“Today a pitcher gets fined if the umpire thinks he threw at a batter. In the olden days, the umpire didn't have to take any courses in mind reading. The pitcher told you he was going to throw at you.”
“Branch Rickey once said of me that I was a man with an infinite capacity for immediately making a bad thing worse.”
“I've never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.”
“Kid, show me a man who doesn't go down on his wife and I'll show you a man whose wife I can sleep with, tonight.”
“Baseball is like church. Many attend, few understand.”