When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
BILL VEECKThis is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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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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The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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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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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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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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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 break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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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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