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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.

Bill Veeck

I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Thinking Winning
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
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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Baseball Men People
Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.
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Baseball Basketball Football
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
BILL VEECK

Attitude Baseball Self
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
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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Cooperstown Group Plague Rampaging Rowdy
I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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Athlete Guy Want
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
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.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Inspirational Softball Sports
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Believe Clear Details
Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
BILL VEECK

Effort Games Individual Team
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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Art Baseball Hate
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
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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