Suffering is overated.
BILL VEECKThere are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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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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How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
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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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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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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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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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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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Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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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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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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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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