“When I began playing the game, baseball was as gentlemanly as a kick in the crotch.”
“Rugby is a beastly game played by gentlemen. Soccer is a gentleman's game played by beasts. Football is a beastly game played by beasts.”
“There was a baseball game on but it didn't look real. It was guys in uniforms playing games on a deep green field. They were playing baseball as if baseball was important and as if all the world wasn't in jail, watching them from a completely different world.”
“Playing baseball for pay - home runTeaching kids to play the game - priceless”
“Baseball happens to be a game of cumulative tension but football, basketball and hockey are played with hand grenades and machine guns. ”
“And once, or twice, to throw the dice is a gentlemanly game, But he does not win who plays with Sin in the secret house of shame”