A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes - Page 2

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• I'm not going to sit here now and say 'do this,' or 'do that.' But you must - must - expunge any vestige of racism.

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  Racism

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• My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

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  Thinking, People, Goal

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• A convention is a social pattern we have chosen to prefer over whatever the raw world simply proffers. It is a sign of the operation of the mind, drawing the assent of a sufficient number of other minds so that the agreement will be widely operative. A convention is not a custom; a custom is a habit in which a sufficient number acquiesce. A custom can appear as a convention, but it is really a lesser act, the result of passive acceptance rather than of the imposition of design. It is the difference between learning to live by the annual flooding of the river or by a calendar.

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  Acceptance, Agreement, Rivers

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• A tremendous social responsibility comes with being a successful public performer.

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  Responsibility, Successful, Social

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• 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.

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  Baseball, Home, College

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

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  Sports, People, Majors

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• All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.

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  League, President, Wanted

  Quoted in Bert Sugar, Book of Sports Quotes (1979)

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• As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid of Giza, the nation's capital, the czar's winter palace, and the Louvre - except, of course, that it was better than all of those inconsequential places.

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  Winter, Pyramids, Olympus

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• 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.

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  Jobs, Firsts, First Time

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• 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.

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  Baseball, Player, America

  "Baseball's lesson for Washington" by Bob Greene, www.cnn.com. October 14, 2013.

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• There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

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  Baseball

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• Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.

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  Winning, Joy, Purity

  A. Bartlett Giamatti (1981). “The University and the Public Interest”, Atheneum Books

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• On a good day, I view the job [of president] as directing an orchestra. On the dark days, it is more like that of a clutch -- engaging the engine to effect forward motion, while taking greater friction.

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  Time, Jobs, Military

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• 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.

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  Belief, Trouble, Capacity

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• 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.

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  Athlete, Experts, World

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• On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.

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  Baseball, Race, Common Decency

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• 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.

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  Cities, Expression, Imagination

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• I think that the young people today feel a tremendous sense of responsibility to their brothers and sisters because of the sacrifices that most families make to send their children to college.

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  Brother, Children, Responsibility

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• Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

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  Baseball, Whole, Dislocation

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• Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.

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  Thinking, Grace, Special

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