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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.

Bill Veeck

Suffering is overated.
BILL VEECK

Life Love Relationship
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Thinking Winning
Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
BILL VEECK

Betetr Echoes Pichetr Sober
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Tests Trying
Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
BILL VEECK

Effort Games Individual Team
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
BILL VEECK

Games Play Stars
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
BILL VEECK

Funny Suffering Teach
I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
BILL VEECK

Leadership Mind Sports
If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
BILL VEECK

Justice Men White
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!…
BILL VEECK

Baseball Reading Wall
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
BILL VEECK

Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball’s immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils….
BILL VEECK

Cooperstown Group Plague Rampaging Rowdy
I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
BILL VEECK

Athlete Guy Want
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.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Basketball Football
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Softball

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