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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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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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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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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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Baseball has the largest library of law and love and custom and ritual, and therefore, in a nation that fundamentally believes it is a nation under law, well, baseball is America’s most privileged version of the level field.
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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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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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A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
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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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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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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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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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