For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThis 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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No one man is superior to the game.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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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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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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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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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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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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