Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
BILL VEECKHating the Yankees isn’t part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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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 mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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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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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!…
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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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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 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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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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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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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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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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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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Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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