Suffering is overated.
BILL VEECKThough it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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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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The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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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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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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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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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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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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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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Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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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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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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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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I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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