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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

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Major sports are major parts of society. It’s not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you’re going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
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On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch — engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.
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The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981 strike) are the temporary custodians of an enduring public trust.
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Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America’s most privileged version of the level field.
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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they’re here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.
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I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.
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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That’s why we get into trouble all the time. We’re always viewed as naive.
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