Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
BILL VEECKNext to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
BILL VEECKI don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
BILL VEECKSuffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
BILL VEECKSuffering is overated.
BILL VEECKThe season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
BILL VEECKI do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
BILL VEECKDeplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
BILL VEECKThe true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
BILL VEECKIt never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
BILL VEECKWhen there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
BILL VEECKThis is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
BILL VEECKWake 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….
BILL VEECKLook, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
BILL VEECKI don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
BILL VEECKI try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
BILL VEECKBaseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
BILL VEECK