Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk i….

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

This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did..

No one man is superior to the game..

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer….

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 ….

The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1….

All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christ….

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..

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching..

People will say I'm an idealist. I hope so..

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 ….

Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That's why we get into trouble all the time. We're always viewed as n….

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfact….

On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way..

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

The professionals must set a good example..

As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital, the czar's winter palace, an….

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball..

I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most famil….