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 VEECKThe most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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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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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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Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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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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Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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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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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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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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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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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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I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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