A. Bartlett Giamatti Quotes

I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.

Homer was able to give us no information relating to the truth, for he wrote of human rather than divine things.

I read The Odyssey all the time. I always get something out of it.

Babe Ruth was great. I'm just lucky.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn't hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

Everyone has someone they looked up to. Mine was Mickey Mantle. For Alex Rodriguez to idolize me coming up, that makes me feel very good.

If you put a real leaf and a silk leaf side by side, you'll see something of the difference between Homer's poetry and anyone else's. There seem to be real leaves still alive in the 'Iliad,' real animals, real people, real light attending everything.

A very great Iliad... concerns the creation of a nation.

As one of nine men, DiMaggio is the best player that ever lived.

I always wanted to play a Greek god in something.

Babe Ruth made a baseball fan of me. I used to go to Yankee Stadium just to see him come to bat.

There was never a day when I was as good as Joe DiMaggio at his best. Joe was the best, the very best I ever saw.

They invented the All-Star game for Willie Mays.

Whenever I think of baseball, the first name that comes to mind is Babe Ruth. What the Babe was to baseball, Shula is to football coaching. There are certain figures in sports who are larger than the games they play or coach, and Don Shula is one of those.

My dad hit 152 home runs and that's the person I wanted to be like. My hero growing up.

The well-known inspiration for 'Ulysses' is made clear by the title itself: Joyce's novel is based on Homer's 'Odyssey', under the ever-fascinating premise that all of Odysseus' extraordinary adventures can be experienced by a modern man in a single day, provided that the writing consists of his mental activity.

The real Amazons were long believed to be purely imaginary. They were the mythical warrior women who were the archenemies of the ancient Greeks. Every Greek hero or champion, from Hercules to Theseus and Achilles, had to prove his mettle by fighting a powerful warrior queen.

If you want to know who was better, me or Willie Mays, you have to look at our career stats. And Willie's bottom line was better.

Just like every other kid in my grade school, I was listening to my little radio plug in my ear when Mickey Mantle hit 18 post-season homers and won series after series for the Yankees. I listened and I learned from that. I think he was the original 'Mr. October,' but thank god it didn't stick.

Yogi's been an inspiration to me, not only because of his baseball skills, but of course for the enduring mark he left on the English language. Some in the press corps think he might even be my speechwriter.

Hercules,huh? Percy frowned. "That guy was like the Starbucks of Ancient Greece. Everywhere you turn--there he is.

I don't know a lot about politics, but I know a lot about baseball.

But I think the Great DiMaggio would be proud of me today.

There goes the greatest hitter who ever lived