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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Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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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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Suffering is overated.
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I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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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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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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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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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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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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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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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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This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
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