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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.

Bill Veeck

How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
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Sage Wisdom Wrinkle
Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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Effort Games Individual Team
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 Joy Running
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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Cooperstown Group Plague Rampaging Rowdy
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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Baseball Basketball Football
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball Mlb Winter
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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Always Outside Possibility Smack Watching
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Funny Suffering Teach
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Attitude Baseball Self
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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Games Play Stars
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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Baseball Thinking Winning
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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Baseball Men People
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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Baseball Inspirational Softball Sports

Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.

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