No one man is superior to the game. |
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching. |
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. |
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way. |
There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball. |
All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League. |
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process. |
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. |
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. |