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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

I’m not going to sit here now and say ‘do this,’ or ‘do that.’ But you must – must – expunge any vestige of racism.
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It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.
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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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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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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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I’m the world’s expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
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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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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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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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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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