I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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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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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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Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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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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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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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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Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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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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I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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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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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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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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