Hating the Yankees isn’t part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
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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Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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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 don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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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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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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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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Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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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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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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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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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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The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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