The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
BILL VEECKI try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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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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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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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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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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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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The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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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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This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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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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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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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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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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