A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes About Baseball

Quotes about: Baseball

• It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in spring, when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Motivational, Summer, Softball

  "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977

• 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.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Home, Journey

  A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

• 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.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Believe, America

  Quoted in Sports Illustrated, 17 Apr. 1989

• For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Games, Literature

• [Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Heart, Green Fields

  "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977

• The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the game's greatest players has engaged in a variety of acts which have stained the game, and he must now live with the consequences of those acts. There is absolutely no deal for reinstatement.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Sorry, Player

  A. Bartlett Giamatti's remarks at the press conference banning Pete Rose from baseball, August 24, 1989.

• You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine and high skies alive, and then, just when the days are all twilight, when you need it most, it stops.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Memories, Twilight

  A. Bartlett Giamatti (1998). “A Great and Glorious Game: Baseball Writings of A. Bartlett Giamatti”, Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill

• All play aspires to the condition of paradise...through play in all its forms...we hope to achieve a state that our larger Greco-Roman, Judeo- Christian culture has always known was lost. Where it exists, we do not know, although we always have envisioned it as a garden...always as removed, as an enclosed green place...Paradise is an ancient dream...It is a dream of ourselves as better than we are, back to what we were.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Christian, Dream, Baseball

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

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Race, Common Decency

• 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.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Player, America

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

• There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball

• 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

  Baseball, Ghouls, People

• Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Talking, Yogi

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

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Whole, Dislocation

• 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.

  A. Bartlett Giamatti

  Baseball, Home, College

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