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 VEECKHating the Yankees isn’t part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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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.
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have been brainwashed, dry-cleaned and dehydrated!…
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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.
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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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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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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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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.
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