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I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.

Bill Veeck

How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
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Sage Wisdom Wrinkle
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
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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Baseball Inspirational Softball Sports
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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Baseball Joy Running
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
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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Baseball Basketball Football
When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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Baseball Individualism Rooms
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
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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Cooperstown Group Plague Rampaging Rowdy
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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Baseball Thinking Winning
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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Art Baseball Hate
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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Athlete Guy Want
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
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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Baseball Men People

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