Hating the Yankees isn’t part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
BILL VEECKHating the Yankees isn’t part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
BILL VEECKDeplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
BILL VEECKI don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
BILL VEECKIf there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
BILL VEECKWake 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….
BILL VEECKWhen there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
BILL VEECKThis is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
BILL VEECKSuffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
BILL VEECKWhat 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!…
BILL VEECKIt never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
BILL VEECKI don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
BILL VEECKThe true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
BILL VEECKThe season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
BILL VEECKWhen the Supreme Court says baseball isn’t run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.
BILL VEECKEvery baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
BILL VEECKBaseball 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.
BILL VEECK