“Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended. ”

“The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity. ”

“For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.”

“It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.”

“People do not become great by doing great things. They do great things because they are great.”

“Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness”

“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”