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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

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I’m not going to sit here now and say ‘do this,’ or ‘do that.’ But you must – must – expunge any vestige of racism.
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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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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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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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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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The professionals must set a good example.
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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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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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The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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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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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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