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A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes

A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes.

There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
No one man is superior to the game.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game’s greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Major sports are major parts of society. It’s not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
The professionals must set a good example.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
I’m not going to sit here now and say ‘do this,’ or ‘do that.’ But you must – must – expunge any vestige of racism.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Americans have been remarkably devoted to the capacity for belief, to idealism. That’s why we get into trouble all the time. We’re always viewed as naive.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you’re going to hear in stereo what was wrong with what you did.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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.
A. Bartlett Giamatti