I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
BILL VEECKPeople 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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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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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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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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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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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 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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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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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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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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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 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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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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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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