“The author refers to a player's affected nonchalance and comments he is, "too young to realize you are what you pretend to be.”

“I'm not paying you for the player you used to be, I'm paying you for the player you are right now.”

“There was but one question he left unasked, and it vibrated between his lines: if gross miscalculations of a person's value could occur on a baseball field, before a live audience of thirty thousand, and a television audience of millions more, what did that say about the measurement of performance in other lines of work? If professional baseball players could be over- or under valued, who couldn't?”

“What do you mean there is no bathrobe in my suite??!!”

“The pleasure of rooting for Goliath is that you can expect to win. The pleasure of rooting for David is that, while you don’t know what to expect, you stand at least a chance of being inspired.”

“That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.”

“First base was a far richer social opportunity. First base made catching feeling like a bad dinner party - what with the ump hanging on your shoulder and all the fans and cameras staring at you. At first base you could really talk.”