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When you get to my age life seems little more than one long march to and from the lavatory. ”
A well begun is half ended. ”
Very often a change of self is needed more than a change of scene. ”
All the best stories are but one story in reality - the story of escape. It is the only thing which interests us all and at all times, how to escape. ”
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. ”
We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans. ”
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. ”
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs. ”
Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations. ”
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. ”