People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIWinning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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 university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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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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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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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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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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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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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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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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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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