A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti
Angelo Bartlett "Bart" Giamattiwas 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...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionEducator
Date of Birth4 April 1938
CountryUnited States of America
success beautiful strong
Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else. Winning is important to any man's or woman's sense of satisfaction and well-being. Winning is not everything; but it is something powerful, indeed beautiful, in itself, something as necessary to the strong spirit as striving is necessary to the healthy character.
All I ever wanted to be was president of the American League.
baseball sorry player
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.
thinking goal people
My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
mind culture made
The university is our culture's assertion that what is made by the mind has value and can convey values.
jobs firsts first-time
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.
yale league management
To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
athlete world experts
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.
brother children responsibility
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.
baseball home college
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.
time jobs military
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.
belief trouble capacity
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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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.
example good-examples
The professionals must set a good example.