«Baseball hasn't forgotten me. I go to a lot of old-timers games and I haven't lost a thing. I sit in the bullpen and let people throw things at me. Just like old times.»

«I'll play out the string and leave baseball without a tear. A man can't play games his whole life.»

«Don't listen to anyone who tells you that you can't do this or that. That's nonsense. Make up your mind, you'll never use crutches or a stick, then have a go at everything. Go to school, join in all the games you can. Go anywhere you want to. But never, never let them persuade you that things are too difficult or impossible.»

«A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.»

«Games are a compromise between intimacy and keeping intimacy away.»

«Computer games don't affect kids, I mean if Pac Man affected us as kids, we'd all be running around in darkened rooms, munching pills and listening to repetitive music»

«For a mother the project of raising a boy is the most fulfilling project she can hope for. She can watch him, as a child, play the games she was not allowed to play; she can invest in him her ideas, aspirations, ambitions, and values -- or whatever she has left of them; she can watch her son, who came from her flesh and whose life was sustained by her work and devotion, embody her in the world. So while the project of raising a boy is fraught with ambivalence and leads inevitably to bitterness, it is the only project that allows a woman to be -- to be through her son, to live through her son.»

«Games lubricate the body and the mind.»

«Auto racing, bull fighting, and mountain climbing are the only real sports ... all others are games.»

«A stereotyped but unconscious despair is concealed even under what are called the games and amusements of mankind.»