A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTITo go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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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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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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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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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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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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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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No one man is superior to the game.
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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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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