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Suffering is overated.

Bill Veeck

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!…
BILL VEECK

Baseball Reading Wall
I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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Athlete Guy Want
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
BILL VEECK

Funny Suffering Teach
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 Men People
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Batteries Next Two
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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Baseball Thinking Winning
Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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Effort Games Individual Team
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball Tests Trying
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Break Elasticity Tests
When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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Baseball Individualism Rooms
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can’t get you off.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Inspirational Softball Sports
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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Bats Sound Spring
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Baseball Games Late
If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
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Justice Men White
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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Games Play Stars
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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Always Outside Possibility Smack Watching

Suffering is overated.

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