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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

Bill Veeck

Hating the Yankees isn’t part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
BILL VEECK

Art Baseball Hate
I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
BILL VEECK

Athlete Guy Want
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.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Joy Running
Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
BILL VEECK

Effort Games Individual Team
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Thinking Winning
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Softball
How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
BILL VEECK

Sage Wisdom Wrinkle
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Tests Trying
When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Individualism Rooms
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
BILL VEECK

Bats Sound Spring
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
BILL VEECK

Beautiful People Sports
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
BILL VEECK

Games Play Stars
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Mlb Winter
I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
BILL VEECK

Leadership Mind Sports
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
BILL VEECK

Funny Suffering Teach
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.
BILL VEECK

Always Outside Possibility Smack Watching

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