Quotes from A. Bartlett Giamatti

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.

Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.

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.

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.

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

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.

My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.