62 Quotes by A. Bartlett Giamatti

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.

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

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

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

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

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.

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

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.

The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.