A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

The professionals must set a good example.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

No one man is superior to the game.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

— 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…

— 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

This is not the first time in my life where you know going into a job that you're going to hear in…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would got to…

— 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…

— 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…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza,…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

“Sports represent a shared vision of how we continue, as individual, team, or community, to experience a happiness or absence of care…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman,…

— 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…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process, where one rehearses constantly while acting, sits…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

“[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again,…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

“For all the allure of speciously stress-free suburbs, for all the grinding of city life, cities endure. And when all those diverse…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

“It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything else begins again,…

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

— A. Bartlett Giamatti

I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any…

— 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

Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

— A. Bartlett Giamatti