I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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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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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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Suffering is overated.
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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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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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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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Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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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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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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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 do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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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.
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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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