Quotes by A. Bartlett Giamatti

About A. Bartlett Giamatti:

Angelo Bartlett was an American professor of English Renaissance literature, the president of Yale University, and the seventh Commissioner of Major League Baseball. Giamatti negotiated the agreement terminating the Pete Rose betting scandal by permitting Rose to voluntarily withdraw from the sport to avoid further punishment.
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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.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

A. Bartlett Giamatti

To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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

A. Bartlett Giamatti

Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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.

A. Bartlett Giamatti

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.

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

Author Bio

  • NameA. Bartlett Giamatti
  • DescriptionAmerican baseball commissioner
  • AliasesA bartlett giamatti; Angelo Bartlett Giamatti; Bartlett Giamatti; Angelo Giamatti; Bart Giamatti
  • BornApril 4, 1938
  • DiedSeptember 1, 1989
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship