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

This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

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

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.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.