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.

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.

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.

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

A new mind, equals a new life.

You must know the rules of the game, to play better.

Business: It is all about generating employment not about generating money.

I honestly didn’t realize at the time that I was dealing with myself. But I suppose it’s true that I developed a therapy that provides the things I needed for so many years and never got.

I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act but I do believe in a fate that falls on men unless they act.

When you believe in your dream and your vision, then it begins to attract its own resources. No one was born to be a failure.

Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists.

You might be a redneck if your dog can't watch you eat without gagging.

There is every indication that the period ahead will be an innovative one, one of rapid change in technology , society , economy , and institutions .

Nobody could have prepared me for the life I've had to become accustomed to.