Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
BILL VEECKI try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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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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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 try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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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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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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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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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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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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