Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
BILL VEECKI don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
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You give a thousand people a can of beer and each of them will drink it, smack his lips and go back to watching the game. You give 1,000 cans to one guy, and there is always the outside possibility that 50,000 people will talk about it.
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The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
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Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball’s immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils….
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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Hating the Yankees isn’t part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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