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I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.

Bill Veeck

I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
BILL VEECK

Break Elasticity Tests
When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Individualism Rooms
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Thinking Winning
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….
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Cooperstown Group Plague Rampaging Rowdy
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
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
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 VEECK

Art Baseball Hate
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
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
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?
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Games Play Stars
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Games Late
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

Baseball Inspirational Softball Sports
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.
BILL VEECK

Always Outside Possibility Smack Watching

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