💦 Top 10 Quotes of A. Bartlett Giamatti - Commissioner of Baseball

Top 10 Quotes of A. Bartlett Giamatti:

✬ 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.

✬ There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.

✬ The professionals must set a good example.

✬ My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.

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

✬ A liberal education is at the heart of a civil society, and at the heart of a liberal education is the act of teaching.

✬ 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.

✬ 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.

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

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🖎 Author: A. Bartlett Giamatti

♛ Career: Commissioner of Baseball

📅 Life: April 4, 1938 - September 1, 1989

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