All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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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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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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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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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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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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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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The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
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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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