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.

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

All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.

The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981 strike) are the temporary custodians of an enduring public trust.

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

Teachers believe they have a gift for giving; it drives them with the same irrepressible drive that drives others to create a work of art or a market or a building.