A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamattiwas an American professor of English Renaissance literature, the president of Yale University, and the seventh Commissioner of Major League Baseball. Giamatti negotiated the agreement terminating the Pete Rose betting scandal by permitting Rose to voluntarily withdraw from the sport to avoid further punishment...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth4 April 1938
CountryUnited States of America
A. Bartlett Giamatti quotes about
motivational summer baseball
It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.
education teaching hippie
A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.
art teaching realization
Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
inspirational teacher art
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.
baseball believe law
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.
simple lust mind
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.
responsibility successful social
A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.
ideas people coercion
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.
tables students eating
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.
baseball heart green-fields
[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
baseball talking yogi
Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
expression cities imagination
If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd imagination? through mental choices making artifice, not through physical reproduction.
baseball people know-me
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.
winter pyramids olympus
As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital, the czar's winter palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that it was better than all of those inconsequential places.