I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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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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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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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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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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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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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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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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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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 believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
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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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