It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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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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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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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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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Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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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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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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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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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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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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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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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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This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
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