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.
BILL VEECKEvery baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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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 mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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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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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 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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How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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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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Suffering is overated.
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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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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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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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