Diamond Quotes

"I don't communicate with players. I tell them what to do. I don't understand the meaning of communication."

Paul Richards

"Baseball is something more than a game to an American boy; it is his training field for life work. Destroy his faith in its squareness and honesty and you have destroyed something more; you have planted suspicion of all things in his heart."

Kenesaw Mountain Landis

"Little League is a disaster. It exists for parents who are trying vicariously to recover an ability of their own that never really existed."

Bill Veeck

"If it wasn't for baseball, many kids would not know what a millionaire looked like."

Phyllis Diller

"I got a face made for radio."

Ron Luciano

"Good stockbrokers are a dime a dozen, but good shortstops are hard to find."

Charles O. Finley

"Forty-one-and-a-half games back! Cleveland's far enough back that they are almost eliminated from next year."

Ken Singleton

"The worst thing about managing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do."

Gene Mauch

"Putting lights on Wrigley Field is like putting aluminum siding on the Sistine Chapel."

Roger Simon

"Humanity is the keystone that holds nations and men together. When that collapses, the whole structure crumbles. This is true of baseball teams as any other pursuit in life."

Connie Mack

"Baseball has always chosen the longest way around and never been administered with real intelligence."

Paul Gallico

"What I really miss about baseball is the surety there will be a next season, so the machinations and the deals of the winter mean something. Maybe thinking about baseball gets me through the winter better than the games do in the summer."

Luke Salisbury