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 VEECKThe most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Suffering is overated.
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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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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 try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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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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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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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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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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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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Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball’s immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils….
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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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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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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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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