A Bartlett Giamatti Quotes

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
No one man is superior to the game.
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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.
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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 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.
There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.
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.
Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.
I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.
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.
Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.
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A. Bartlett Giamatti
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04 April, 1938
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01 September, 1989
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