Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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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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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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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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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Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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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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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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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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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 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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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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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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