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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTII 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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Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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The professionals must set a good example.
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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No one man is superior to the game.
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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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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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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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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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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
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People will say I’m an idealist. I hope so.
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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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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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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
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A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
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