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

To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

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

We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

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.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.