If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
BILL VEECKI don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Suffering is overated.
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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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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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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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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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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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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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Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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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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When 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.
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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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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This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
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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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