I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
BILL VEECKThere are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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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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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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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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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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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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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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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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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 break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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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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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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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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