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.
BILL VEECKSuffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
-
-
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
BILL VEECK -
Suffering is overated.
BILL VEECK -
If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
BILL VEECK -
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
BILL VEECK -
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.
BILL VEECK -
I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
BILL VEECK -
Hating the Yankees isn’t part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
BILL VEECK -
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
BILL VEECK -
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
BILL VEECK -
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
BILL VEECK -
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 -
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.
BILL VEECK -
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….
BILL VEECK -
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
BILL VEECK -
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.
BILL VEECK







