I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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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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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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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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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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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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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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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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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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The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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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 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 thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Suffering is overated.
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