I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
BILL VEECKPeople 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.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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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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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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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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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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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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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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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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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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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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Suffering is overated.
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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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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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