I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
BILL VEECKSuffering is overated.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Suffering is overated.
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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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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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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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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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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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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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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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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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I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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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.
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