Quotes from A. Bartlett Giamatti

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone.

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

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

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.

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.

No one man is superior to the game.

The professionals must set a good example.

People will say I'm an idealist. I hope so.

We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans.

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

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

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

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.

Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.

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.

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

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.

You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

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 tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.