Wake 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 VEECKIf there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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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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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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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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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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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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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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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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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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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Suffering is overated.
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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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I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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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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