Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
BILL VEECKSuffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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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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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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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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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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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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 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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Suffering is overated.
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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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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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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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I try not to break the rules, but merely to 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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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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