Giamatti Baseball Quotes

#1. We have an obligation to spread amateur baseball both at home and abroad. Building up the game at all levels - Little League, Babe Ruth Leagues, the colleges - is in our own self-interest. That's where the pool of talent is - and also of fans. - Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti

#2. As I grew up, I knew that as a building (Fenway Park) was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid at Giza, the nation's capitol, the czar's Winter Palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that is better than all those inconsequential places - Author: Bart Giamatti

#3. The people of America care about baseball, not about your squalid little squabbles. Reassume your dignity and remember that you (players during the 1981 strike) are the temporary custodians of an enduring public trust. - Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti

#4. A basic element of the American dream is equal access to education as the lubricant of social and economic mobility. - Author: Nicholas Kristof

#5. When in doubt, follow the senses of beasts. - Author: F.T. McKinstry

#6. I see no magic in tax dollars which are sent to Washington and then returned. I abhor the waste and incompetence of large-scale federal bureaucracies in this administration as well as in others. I do not favor state compulsion when voluntary individual effort can do the job and do it well. - Author: John F. Kennedy

#7. There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball. - Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti

#8. If you're not willing to have somebody hauled off at gunpoint over the project, then it's probably not a legitimate concern of the state. - Author: Kevin D. Williamson

#9. The cool thing about doing a voice-over into a different language is that you get to bring the character of your own culture into it. - Author: Bridgit Mendler

#10. 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. - Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti

#11. For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience. - Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti

#12. I'm completely in charge of my own life now. Sometimes there's no one there to slap me on the hand and say: 'Stop being so bullish and bossy,' and things like that. - Author: Kiri Te Kanawa

#13. Part of me wanted him to be awake, but the other part of me liked this quiet feeling of being both alone and not lonely. - Author: Maggie Stiefvater

#14. Far too often, when we think we are frightened by mystery, the fact is that we are haunted by history. - Author: Erwin Raphael McManus

#15. 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. - Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti

#16. No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good. - Author: Pete Rose

#17. God made the senses turn outwards, man therefore looks outwards, not into himself. But occasionally a daring soul, desiring immortality, has looked back and found himself. - Author: Eknath Easwaran

#18. On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way. - Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti

#19. The purpose of battle is to attain the greatest heights within your own limits. - Author: Yukito Kishiro

#20. The song in my heart makes me glad. - Author: Lailah Gifty Akita

#21. Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive. - Author: Auguste Rodin

#22. Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations. - Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti

#23. Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods. - Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti

#24. Two basic values, autonomy and solidarity, serve as helpful prompters in any decision-making process. - Author: Gyorgy Konrad

#25. 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. - Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti