I don't know how long I kept at it. . . I felt reasonably safe, streched out on the floor, and lay quite still. It didn't seem to be summer any more
Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.
There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.
If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
I think if there hadn't been the one passage of the book that mostly abandons the humor, and focuses very intently on one person's struggle with cancer, it wouldn't have been a critical success. So that was a very deliberate decision, to say "Well, if you think it's all fun and games, it's not. " So that was my approach: We're going to have as much fun as I can possibly provide, but the serious things that might normally pass by you are not going to be lost.
But if you tame me, then we shall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, I shall be unique in all the world.
Fear is vision without hope.
Whatever you like to do, make it a hobby and whatever the world likes to do, make it a business.