The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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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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.
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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 don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Hating the Yankees isn’t part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
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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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Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Suffering is overated.
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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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I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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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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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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