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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIOn a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch — engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.
More A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes
-
-
A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI -
All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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 -
On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI -
You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI -
The professionals must set a good example.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI -
There’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI -
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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 society.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI -
[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI -
I’m not going to sit here now and say ‘do this,’ or ‘do that.’ But you must – must – expunge any vestige of racism.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI -
Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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 is a nation under law, well, baseball is America’s most privileged version of the level field.
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 are caricatures.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI