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 VEECKSuffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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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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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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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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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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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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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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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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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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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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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 don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Suffering is overated.
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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