There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to work on something as unserious as baseball. If they only knew.

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.

The professionals must set a good example.

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

Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

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.

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.