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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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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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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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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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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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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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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The professionals must set a good example.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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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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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 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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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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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