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.

It is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.

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. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.

You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

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

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