For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIFor me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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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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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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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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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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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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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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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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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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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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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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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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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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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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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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