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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.

Bill Veeck

When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Individualism Rooms
Suffering is overated.
BILL VEECK

Life Love Relationship
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
BILL VEECK

Beautiful People Sports
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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Art Baseball Hate
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
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
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
BILL VEECK

Bats Sound Spring
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
BILL VEECK

Games Play Stars
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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Justice Men White
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
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
BILL VEECK

Attitude Baseball Self
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Thinking Winning
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Tests Trying
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
BILL VEECK

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

Baseball Softball
People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following – but I’ll bet Lancelot had more.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Men People

I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.

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