The professionals must set a good example.
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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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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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No one man is superior to the game.
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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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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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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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.
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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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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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