Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
BILL VEECKEvery baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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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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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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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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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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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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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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How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
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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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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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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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