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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 Satisfaction And Well-being. Winning Is Not Everything; But It Is Something Powerful, Indeed Beautiful, In Itself, Something As Necessary To The Strong Spirit As Striving Is Necessary To The Healthy Character.

All I Ever Wanted To Be President Of Was The American League.

Baseball Has The Largest Library Of Law And Love And Custom And Ritual, And Therefore, In A Nation That Fundamentally Believes It Is A Nation Under Law, Well, Baseball Is America's Most Privileged Version Of The Level Field.

Far Better To Think Historically, To Remember The Lessons Of The Past. Thus, Far Better To Conceive Of Power As Consisting In Part Of The Knowledge Of When Not To Use All The Power You Have. Far Better To Be One Who Knows That If You Reserve The Power Not To Use All Your Power, You Will Lead Others Far More Successfully And Well.

A Convention Is A Social Pattern We Have Chosen To Prefer Over Whatever The Raw World Simply Proffers. It Is A Sign Of The Operation Of The Mind, Drawing The Assent Of A Sufficient Number Of Other Minds So That The Agreement Will Be Widely Operative. A Convention Is Not A Custom; A Custom Is A Habit In Which A Sufficient Number Acquiesce. A Custom Can Appear As A Convention, But It Is Really A Lesser Act, The Result Of Passive Acceptance Rather Than Of The Imposition Of Design. It Is The Difference Between Learning To Live By The Annual Flooding Of The River Or By A Calendar.