Diamond Quotes

"You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the goddamn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all."

Earl Weaver

"Baseball is too much of a sport to be called a business and too much of a busi­ness to be called a sport."

Phil Wrigley

"When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me."

Bill Veeck

"Baseball is not supported by civic pride. It's supported by interest in winners, a desire to see them perform or the hope that they'll get licked."

Tillinghast L'hommedieu Huston

"Sentiment does not win ballgames."

Harry Frazee

"Baseball has to be a great game to survive the fools who run it."

Bill Terry

"What you've got to have in baseball is pitching, speed, and money."

Ted Turner

"I am the most loyal player money can buy."

Don Sutton

"Every player should be accorded the privilege of at least one season with the Chicago Cubs. That's baseball as it should be played—in God's own sunshine. And that's really living."

Alvin Dark

"Baseball has a cleanness. If you do a good job, the numbers say so. You don't have to ask anyone or play politics. You don't have to wait for reviews."

Sandy Koufax

"If the age of baseball has passed, let it pass for this hour, not into extinction like last year's TV show, but back into its origins and local affections, town clubs and small devoted ownership. Let the big, ambitious owner surrender; let the brute sports thrive and flourish. Let Time have its way with baseball as with all natural, enduring things until one day, as I suspect, America, like Ted Williams, having fished all the waters of the known world, will return to the game that bespeaks its myth at a pace to match the reconciliation."

Mark Harris

"I want to be remembered as a ballplayer who gave all he had to give."

Roberto Clemente

"Do not alibi on bad hops; anybody can field the good ones."

Charles Albert Bender

"Has anybody ever satisfactorily explained why the bad hop is always the last one?"

Hank Greenwald