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

All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
A. Bartlett Giamatti

No one man is superior to the game.
A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

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

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

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

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