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.
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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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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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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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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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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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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