Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
BILL VEECKYou 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.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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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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I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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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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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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Suffering is overated.
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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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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Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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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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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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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 mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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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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