I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
BILL VEECKWake 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….
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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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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I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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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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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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Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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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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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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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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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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Suffering is overated.
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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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