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

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

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

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

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.

If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acting, sits as a spectator at a play one directs, engages every part in order to keep the choices open and the shape alive for the student, so that the student may enter in, and begin to do what the teacher has done: make choices.