I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
BILL VEECKI don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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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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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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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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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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Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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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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The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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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….
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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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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