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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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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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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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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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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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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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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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 university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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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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No one man is superior to the game.
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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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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