A Tremendous Social Responsibility Comes With Being

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.

I Think That The Young People Today Feel A Tremendous Sense Of Responsibility To Their Brothers And Sisters Because Of The Sacrifices That Most Families Make To Send Their Children To College.

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.

The Gods Have Fled, I Know. My Sense Is The Gods Have Always Been Essentially Absent. I Do Not Believe Human Beings Have Played Games Or Sports From The Beginning Merely To Summon Or To Please Or To Appease The Gods. If Anthropologists And Historians Believe That, It Is Because They Believe Whatever They Have Been Able To Recover About What Humankind Told The Gods Humankind Was Doing. I Believe We Have Played Games, And Watched Games, To Imitate The Gods, To Become Godlike In Our Worship Of Eachother And, Through Those Moments Of Transmutation, To Know For An Instant What The Gods Know.

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.