“- Jack Elliot: Just let them have a little fun.
- Uchiyama: Baseball is work. Not fun.
- Jack Elliot: Baseball is grown men getting paid to play a game. When you were a kid, I bet you didn't pick up a bat and ball because you were dying to work. A player's career is short enough. Let them enjoy it.”
Tom Selleck - Jack Elliot
Ken Takakura - Uchiyama

“Baseball is a game, and games are supposed to be fun.”
Tom Selleck - Jack Elliot

“If only I was born Italian... all the best Yankees are Italian. My mother makes spaghetti with ketchup, what chance do I have?”

Jonathan Silverman - Eugene Morris Jerome

“The fans are like women. When you're hitting, they love you. When you're not, they'd just as soon spit on you as look at you.”

Wesley Snipes - Bobby Rayburn

“- Bobby Rayburn: At least you're not one of those diehard, you know, baseball fans. You know, really.
- Gil Renard: Why's that?
- Bobby Rayburn: Because those guys are losers.
- Gil Renard: Aren't the fans what it's all about?”
Wesley Snipes - Bobby Rayburn
Robert De Niro - Gil Renard