A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes

"Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well."
-A. Bartlett Giamatti in Power quotes.

"There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball."
-A. Bartlett Giamatti

"It 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 Giamatti

"On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way."
-A. Bartlett Giamatti

"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."
-A. Bartlett Giamatti in Society quotes.

"The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement."
-A. Bartlett Giamatti

"Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process."
-A. Bartlett Giamatti in Art quotes.

"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."
-A. Bartlett Giamatti

"It's designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring, when everything is new again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains comes, it stops, and leaves you to face the fall alone."
-A. Bartlett Giamatti