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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.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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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The professionals must set a good example.
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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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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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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
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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The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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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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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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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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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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