Are you any relation to your brother Marv?
(spoken to announcer Steve Albert)

Are you any relation to your brother Marv?
(spoken to announcer Steve Albert)

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else read more

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

They pay me to practice. Sundays I play for free.
(explaining his contractual obligations)

They pay me to practice. Sundays I play for free.
(explaining his contractual obligations)

I'm not allowed to comment on lousy officiating.

I'm not allowed to comment on lousy officiating.

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

If everything seems under control, you're just not going fast enough.

But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.
(telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's read more

But the real tragedy was that 15 hadn't been colored yet.
(telling Gator fans that a fire at Auburn's football dorm had destroyed 20 books)

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

I don't psyche myself up. I psyche myself down. I think clearer when I'm not psyched up.

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the read more

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.

I am the most loyal player money can buy.
(Pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, read more

I am the most loyal player money can buy.
(Pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers, Houston Astros, Milwaukee Brewers, Oakland Athletics and California Angels)