Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti

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.

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

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

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.

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.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

This 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.

This 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 Giamatti

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

- A. Bartlett Giamatti

Americans 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.

Americans 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 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.

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

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