The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
BILL VEECKI believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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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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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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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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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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I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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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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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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You 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.
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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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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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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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Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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