No one man is superior to the game.

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

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.

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.

On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch -- engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.

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

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.