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 VEECKThe most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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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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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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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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This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
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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 try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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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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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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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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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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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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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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