The university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThe university is our culture’s assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTISome of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
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 GIAMATTIA tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThe professionals must set a good example.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTITeaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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 GIAMATTITalking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
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.
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 GIAMATTIFor me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThere 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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIMy goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTINo one man is superior to the game.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTIThere 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.
A. BARTLETT GIAMATTI