If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
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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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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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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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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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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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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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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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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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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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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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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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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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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