A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes


"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
(Related: Education, Society, Heart, Act, Liberal, Teaching)

"All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
(Related: American, President)

"No one man is superior to the game."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
(Related: Man)

"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
(Related: Art, Work, Building, Giving, Teachers)

"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
(Related: Life, Work, People, Baseball)

"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
(Related: Society, Answers, Doctrine, Lust, Mind, Right)

"There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
(Related: Baseball, Nothing)

"Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process."
- A. Bartlett Giamatti
(Related: Art, Potential, Teaching)