Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

教学是一门本能的艺术，关注潜能，渴望实现，是一个停顿、无缝的过程。

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

自由教育是公民社会的核心，而自由教育的核心是教学行为。

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.

老师们相信他们有一种送礼的天赋；它以同样不可抑制的驱动力驱使他们去创造一件艺术品、一个市场或一座建筑。

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.

有许多人渴望得到教义或法令的简单答案。他们在左边和右边。他们并不局限于社会的某一部分。他们是思想的恐怖分子。

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.

大学在这里不是为了强迫别人，而是为了自由交流思想。

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

我只想成为美国联盟的主席。

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

在种族问题上，在体面问题上，棒球应该起带头作用。

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.

有很多认识我的人一辈子都不明白我为什么要做棒球这样不严肃的事情。如果他们知道的话。

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

棒球没有什么坏处。

No one man is superior to the game.

没有人比这项运动更出色。

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

我的目标一直是鼓励联合，促使人们考虑联合，而不是单独经营。

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.

我是世界上学者们对运动员和运动员们对学者们所持的立体类型的专家。对我来说，它们都是漫画。