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“Yeah, for my sins, and that was a terrible idea. Future memoir writers, don’t read books along the lines of what I’m going to describe. No, the best — and I mention it with great joy — the best memoir I read was Andre Agassi’s memoir, Open.”
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01 / belief
“Now, I think a lot more could be done by bringing baseball to the inner city and to communities that haven’t had the space or the resources to make it happen because the truth is, the greatest conversion for people, or the greatest attraction to the game, comes from people who’ve played the game and have had to work those mechanics and those philosophies and those strategies themselves.”
02 / belief
“I think you saw this with the Syria chemical weapons response, that some Democrats came out in favor of that because it’s something they had favored Obama doing, and they were consistent.”
03 / belief
“I think to get the angles right at second base, not that they make great calls at first an overwhelming percentage of the time.”
04 / belief
“I think that you could imagine some of the resources that are now expended in places where we’re in combat that the American people don’t even know about.”
05 / belief
“My past, pre-memoir self, I think, is the right balance of what you share and what you don’t share.”
06 / belief
“I see even here the extent to which you see such a willful attempt on the part of the Chinese government to sort of insinuate themselves into American college campuses, to really shrivel up the safe spaces in which criticism of China can occur, even thousands and thousands of miles away from where any instability might take root and might actually threaten the regime. And again, with us more recessive on these questions — we, the United States, that is — I think you’re seeing an emboldened China using the money that it has, using the economic leverage that it has around the world, using the student exchanges that many of us really do think are a good idea as a general proposition, in part to increase connections among our peoples as our governments grow more estranged.”