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There are a lot of people who know me who can’t understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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Hope Idealist Inspire Knowledge People
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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Buy Family First Job Love Money Rich
Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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Gift Joy Luck Motivate Purity Win
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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Baseball Game Hobby Memory Passion Twilight
There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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Bad Baseball Sports
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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Explore Hope Job Military Sacrifice Time
To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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Knowledge League Management Plan Yale
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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Eating Habit Natural Student Table
The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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Culture Hope Luck Made Mind Smile
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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City Expression Imagination
[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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Break Design Heart Yourself
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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Art Baseball Explore Ghoul Motivation People Unique
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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Goal People Plan Power Success Think
The professionals must set a good example.
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Emotion Example Explore Family Good Life Motivation
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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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Responsibility Social Successful Union

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