62 Quotes by A. Bartlett Giamatti

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.

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.

Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

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.

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

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.