A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

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.

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

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.

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

No one man is superior to the game.

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.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

The professionals must set a good example.

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

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.

To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.