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 VEECKLook, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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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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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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Suffering is overated.
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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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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 want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following – but I’ll bet Lancelot had more.
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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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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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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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Hating the Yankees isn’t part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
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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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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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