"I think about baseball when I wake up in the morning. I think about it all day and I dream about it at night. The only time I don't think about it is when I'm playing it." -- Carl Yastrzemski
"If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400." -- Ted Williams
"As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid at Giza, the nation's capitol, the czar's Winter Palace, and the Louvre — except, of course, that is better than all those inconsequential places." -- Baseball Commissioner Bart Giamatti, on Fenway Park
"When I'm in Boston, I always feel like I'm home. I almost cry, I feel so good." -- Luis Tiant
