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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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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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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The professionals must set a good example.
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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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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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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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There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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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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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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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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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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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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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 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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