- A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
- Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
- I usually take a two-hour nap, from one o'clock to four.
- It ain't over 'til it's over.
- It gets late early out here.
- It's so crowded nobody goes there anymore.
- It's deja vu all over again.
- Why buy good luggage? You only use it when you travel.
- You can observe a lot by watching.
- I never said half the things I said.
- I want to thank everybody for making this night necessary.
- Pair up by threes.
- What the hell is wrong with him now? (when told by his wife that she's taken one of their sons to see the movie Dr. Zhivago)
- Slump? I ain't in no slump. I'm just not hitting.
- The future ain't what it used to be.
- God Bless this wonderful game they call baseball.
- I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
- You should always go to other people's funerals, otherwise, they won't come to yours.
- I don't know (if they were men or women fans running naked across the field). They had bags over their heads.
- How long have you known me, Jack? And you still don't know how to spell my name. - Upon receiving a check from Jack Buck made out to "bearer.
- I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.
- In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
- He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.
- So I'm ugly. I never saw anyone hit with his face.
- You can't compare me to my father. Our similarities are different.
- Love is the most important thing in the world, but baseball is pretty good too.
- (On why New York lost the 1960 World Series to Pittsburgh): We made too many wrong mistakes.
- If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.
- Never answer an anonymous letter.
- We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising.
- (When asked by a teammate why he endorsed a product that he hardly ever used) Because they paid me in cash, which is almost as good as money. (a line that was used years later in a commercial he did for AFLAC Insurance Co.).
- Speaking about 1973 New York Mets' miracle finish: People thought we were dead.
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