I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
BILL VEECKThere are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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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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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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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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Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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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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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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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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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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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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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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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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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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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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This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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