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“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.”
Source : "The Green Fields of the Mind," Yale Alumni Magazine, Nov. 1977
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“On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.”
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“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.”
Source : A. Bartlett Giamatti's remarks at the press conference banning Pete Rose from baseball, August 24, 1989.
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“Talking to Yogi Berra about baseball is like talking to Homer about the Gods.”
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“It seems that I have spent my entire life trying to make life more rational and that it was all wasted effort.”
Source : In Observer 17 Aug. 1986
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“Above all am I convinced of the need, irrevocable and inescapable, of every human heart, for God. No matter how we try to escape, to lose ourselves in restless seeking, we cannot separate ourselves from our divine source. There is no substitute for God.”
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“I think that maybe that's my weakness, in that I don't know how to do it, so I just do what I do and try to do it as passionately and as well as I can.”
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“Better to be too early and have to try again, than be too late and have to catch up.”
Source : Twitter post from Feb 24, 2013 
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“We are all farsighted, we give importance to those things that are far from us, while neglecting the things that are close to us... only to realize their value later when they are out-of-reach again...”
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“The more I learn, the more I realize I don't know.”
