I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
BILL VEECKWhat 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!…
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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This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
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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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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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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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Suffering is overated.
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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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Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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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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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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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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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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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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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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