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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIPeople will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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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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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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No one man is superior to the game.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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