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

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

[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

No one man is superior to the game.

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.

Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

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

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.

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.

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

My bullshit meter is reading that as 'false'.

After the final no there comes a yes / And on that yes the future world depends.

If the world stops spinning, slowing to a crawl. I will continue to dream of you. Until, I no longer dream at all.

Innovation is too important to leave solely in the hands of the management team without any Board oversight or guidance

In this life we get only those things for which we hunt, for which we strive, and for which we are willing to sacrifice.

Thought is essentially practical in the sense that but for thought no motion would be an action, no change a progress.

No, this is not a good town for psychedelic drugs. Reality itself is too twisted.

Many of us know more about the workings of our car than we do the reproductive cycle.

Given the eclectic and constantly shifting nature of my metaphysical inclinations, I will probably never feel certain exactly what an angel is.