Words matter. These are the best A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
The professionals must set a good example.
No one man is superior to the game.
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.
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.
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 liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
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.
Some of my academic friends think I’ve fallen from a very special grace.
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.
There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
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.
Major sports are major parts of society. It’s not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
