I’m not going to sit here now and say ‘do this,’ or ‘do that.’ But you must – must – expunge any vestige of racism.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIWinning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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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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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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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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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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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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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