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.
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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 GIAMATTIAll I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThis 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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTII’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 GIAMATTIThere’s nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIBaseball 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 GIAMATTIIt is not enough to offer a smorgasbord of courses. We must insure that students are not just eating at one end of the table.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTITeachers 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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIFor me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIUniversities 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 GIAMATTITeaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTII 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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIAmericans 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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIWinning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIA tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIOn matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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