My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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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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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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 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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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