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Commissioner Of Baseball Inspirational Quotes (54)

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[Baseball] breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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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
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People will say I'm an idealist. I hope so.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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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.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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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
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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
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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
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My goal has been to encourage jointness, to push people to think of affiliations rather than to operate as solo entrepreneurs.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Major sports are major parts of society. It's not anomalous to have people who love sports come from other parts of that society.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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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
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Baseball has undergone and absorbed a whole set of dislocations.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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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.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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The professionals must set a good example.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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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.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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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
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There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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No one man is superior to the game.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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To go from Yale to the National League is simply to go from one form of management to another.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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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.
A. Bartlett Giamatti
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The greatest country in the history of the world being attacked. So all of this doesn't mean very much today.
Bud Selig
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