"You're slowing up, Dick. Two years ago you could have gotten out of the way of that ball."

“Peter Sellers is now in the $250,000-per-picture class—that was his deal with Stanley Kubrick for "Dr. Strangeglove" —and inasmuch as he makes pictures as fast as he can read scripts, he should be a millionaire by Saturday.”

“It was Hank Aaron who hung that Dr. Strangeglove tag on me. I told him, to his face, that he would never amount to anything.”

“Washington writer's nickname for many-thumbed first-baseman Dick Stuart: Dr. Strangeglove.”

“He's like Bill Buckley, late of New York's mayoral election. You may not like what he does, but you'll have to admit he does it with flair.”

“I was gonna hit one. Can I help it if Maz got cute?”

“There must be the best 169-pound slugger in baseball.”