A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes About Games
-
For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
→ -
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.
→ -
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.
→ -
No one man is superior to the game.
→ -
The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe human beings have played games or sports from the beginning merely to summon or to please or to appease the gods. If anthropologists and historians believe that, it is because they believe whatever they have been able to recover about what humankind told the gods humankind was doing. I believe we have played games, and watched games, to imitate the gods, to become godlike in our worship of eachother and, through those moments of transmutation, to know for an instant what the gods know.
→ -
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
- Born: April 4, 1938
- Died: September 1, 1989
- Occupation: Commissioner of Baseball
Related Authors
-
Booker T. Washington Educator -
-
Rick Levin Economist -
Peter Ueberroth Executive -
Dane DeHaan Actor -
-
Sally Field Actress -
Howard Thurman Author -
Pete Rose Baseball player -
Jamie Foxx Actor -
Bowie Kuhn Lawyer -
Edmund Spenser Poet -
Andrew Garfield Actor -
Paul Giamatti Actor -
Bud Selig Commissioner of Baseball -
A.A. Attanasio Author -
Kingman Brewster, Jr. Educator -
-
Kenesaw Mountain Landis Commissioner of Baseball -
Alfred Whitney Griswold Historian