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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.

Bill Veeck

I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Thinking Winning
I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
BILL VEECK

Leadership Mind Sports
How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
BILL VEECK

Sage Wisdom Wrinkle
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.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Inspirational Softball Sports
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 VEECK

Art Baseball Hate
I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
BILL VEECK

Athlete Guy Want
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
BILL VEECK

Batteries Next Two
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 VEECK

Baseball Reading Wall
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
BILL VEECK

Baseball Clip Paper
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
BILL VEECK

Funny Suffering Teach
When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Individualism Rooms
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
BILL VEECK

Bats Sound Spring
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
BILL VEECK

Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Tests Trying
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
BILL VEECK

Beautiful People Sports
Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
BILL VEECK

Effort Games Individual Team

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