Suffering is overated.
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 don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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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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Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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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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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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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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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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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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The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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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 most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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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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