This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
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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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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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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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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Suffering is overated.
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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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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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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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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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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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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