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.

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

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.

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

The difference between good teachers and great teachers is that great teachers have mastered the art of teaching people things they didn't know they needed to learn.

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.