“I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.”

“Concentration is that ability to not think about anything.”

“We do not stop playing because we are old We are old because we stop playing.”

“We connect through our dreams. Like we could be a thousand miles apart and I'd still know you were there.”

“I would understand later that baseball was what truly made him an American: the sports pages were more crucial documents than the Constitution.”

“I failed to understand what was so enviable about having a position that a pack of phonies sucked up to. Dishwashing suited me because nice people were nice to me and assholes were assholes to me, yet no one ever sucked up to me.”

“Everyones greatest fantasy is to walk away from the life (they think)you lead”