The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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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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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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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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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I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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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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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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I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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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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Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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Suffering is overated.
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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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