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This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.

Bill Veeck

How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
BILL VEECK

Sage Wisdom Wrinkle
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
BILL VEECK

Funny Suffering Teach
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can’t get you off.
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Baseball Inspirational Softball Sports
Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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Effort Games Individual Team
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Softball
Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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Betetr Echoes Pichetr Sober
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
BILL VEECK

Break Elasticity Tests
I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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Athlete Guy Want
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
BILL VEECK

Believe Clear Details
Hating the Yankees isn’t part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
BILL VEECK

Art Baseball Hate
When the Supreme Court says baseball isn’t run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Joy Running
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
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Bats Sound Spring
Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Basketball Football
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Games Late
Suffering is overated.
BILL VEECK

Life Love Relationship
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
BILL VEECK

Attitude Baseball Self

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