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.”

“Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.”

“There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.”

“I'm the world's expert on sterotypes held by academics about athletes and held by athletes about academics. To me, both of them are caricatures.”

“Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.”

“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.”

“Some of my academic friends think I've fallen from a very special grace.”

“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.”