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!…
BILL VEECKDeplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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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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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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You give a thousand people a can of beer and each of them will drink it, smack his lips and go back to watching the game. You give 1,000 cans to one guy, and there is always the outside possibility that 50,000 people will talk about it.
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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to 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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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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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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Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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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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People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following – but I’ll bet Lancelot had more.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Suffering is overated.
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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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