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 VEECKI don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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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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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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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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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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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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Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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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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This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
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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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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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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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