Quotes by A. Bartlett Giamatti

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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.

Acceptance

Agreement

Rivers

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

Responsibility

Social

Successful

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.

Belief

Capacity

Trouble

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.

Olympus

Pyramids

Winter

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.

America

Baseball

Believe

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

Baseball

Dislocation

Whole

Baseball is about homecoming. It is a journey by theft and strength, guile and speed, out around first to the far island of second, where foes lurk in the reefs and the green sea suddenly grows deeper, then to turn sharply, skimming the shallows, making for a shore that will show a friendly face, a color, a familiar language and, at third, to proceed, no longer by paths indirect but straight, to home.

Baseball

Home

Journey

Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as consisting in part of the knowledge of when not to use all the power you have. Far better to be one who knows that if you reserve the power not to use all your power, you will lead others far more successfully and well.

Past

Power

Wisdom

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

Racism

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.

Athlete

Experts

World

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Acceptance

Agreement

America

Art

Athlete

Baseball

Belief

Believe

Capacity

Coercion

Dislocation

Example

Experts

First Time

Firsts

Games

Good Examples

Grace

Home

Idealist

Ideas

Jobs

Journey

Joy

League

Lust

Management

Memories

Mind

Motivational

Olympus

Past

People

Player

Power

Purity

Pyramids

Racism

Responsibility

Rivers

Simple

Social

Softball

Sorry

Special

Sports

Successful

Summer

Teacher

Teaching

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Quotes by A. Bartlett Giamatti

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

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.

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.

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.

Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.

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

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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