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.
BILL VEECKSuffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
BILL VEECKI try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
BILL VEECKI don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
BILL VEECKBaseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
BILL VEECKThis is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
BILL VEECKBaseball 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.
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 VEECKI don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
BILL VEECKIt never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
BILL VEECKThe season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
BILL VEECKI don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
BILL VEECKIf there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
BILL VEECKDeplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
BILL VEECKWhat 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!…
BILL VEECKI do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
BILL VEECK