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No one man is superior to the game.
The professionals must set a good example.
People will say I'm an idealist. I hope so.
There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
St. Louis is closer to Minneapolis than Milwaukee is.
All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.
The appetite for more instant replay in the sport is very low.
Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.
Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
I do have a lot of concerns but I am happy to say the Mets aren't one of them.
A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
I want to be my usual painstaking, cautious, slow, conservative self in analyzing it.
If a jury of your peers finds you not guilty, I will reinstate you back into baseball.
You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street.
The one thing we know today is we can't continue to do business the way we have in the past.
To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
How lucky have we been that the face of baseball for the past two decades, through ups and downs, has been Derek Jeter.
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.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Major League Baseball is a national institution and we take our responsibilities seriously when it comes to how the game affects the lives of American youth.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
So that there is no misunderstanding from my perspective, I will suspend any player who tests positive for an illegal steroid. There will be no exceptions. The (players) union is aware of that and they accept it.
The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981 strike) are the temporary custodians of an enduring public trust.
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.
You mean guys don't get injured in spring training? Guys get hurt walking down the street. All the managers, pitching coaches are very sensitive. Look, you can always pick at something, but there's a broader picture, a grander picture.
I don't know how we could use it to improve the job that umpires do, ... The human element in sport has always been a big part of the game. I'm a football fan, too, and I hate instant replay in the NFL. Football games are taking four hours.
Major League Baseball has always recognized the influence that our stars can have on the youth of America. As such, we are concerned that recent revelations and allegations of steroid use have been sending a terrible message to young people.