When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
BILL VEECKI try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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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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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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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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I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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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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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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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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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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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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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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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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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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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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