62 Quotes by 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 stereo what was wrong with what you did.

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

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

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.

There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

I’m the world’s expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.

I’m not going to sit here now and say ‘do this,’ or ‘do that.’ But you must – must – expunge any vestige of racism.

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