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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.

Bill Veeck

Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
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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Baseball Inspirational Softball Sports
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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Baseball Thinking Winning
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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Effort Games Individual Team
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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Always Outside Possibility Smack Watching
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
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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Baseball Men People
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
How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
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Sage Wisdom Wrinkle
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
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
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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Baseball Individualism Rooms

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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