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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No one man is superior to the game.
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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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The professionals must set a good example.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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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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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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