Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
BILL VEECKThe true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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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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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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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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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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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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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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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 believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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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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I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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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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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Suffering is overated.
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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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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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