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

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

All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

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.

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