“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”

“I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity”

“Every baseball crowd, like every theater audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere”

“The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball”

“The music is the main thing and it's just as easy to write acceptable words.”

“We steer completely clear of anything suggestive”

“She was so small she could make mamba in a telephone booth.”

“We take a lot of care with lyrics because we don't want to offend anybody.”

“The road can be hard on a kid if he's not careful.”