A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes

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

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

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

No one man is superior to the game.

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.

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.

There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.