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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

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.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Men People
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
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
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
BILL VEECK

Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
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
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
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
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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Bats Sound Spring
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
Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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Effort Games Individual Team
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
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
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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Always Outside Possibility Smack Watching
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Softball
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
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
BILL VEECK

Leadership Mind Sports
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!…
BILL VEECK

Baseball Reading Wall
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
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
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
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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Justice Men White
Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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Betetr Echoes Pichetr Sober
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
BILL VEECK

Attitude Baseball Self

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