There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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.
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.
No one man is superior to the game.
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.
Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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.
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone.
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.
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
© 2020 Inspirational Stories
© 2020 Inspirational Stories