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I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.

Bill Veeck

I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Thinking Winning
How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
BILL VEECK

Sage Wisdom Wrinkle
If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
BILL VEECK

Justice Men White
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
BILL VEECK

Games Play Stars
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
BILL VEECK

Beautiful People Sports
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
BILL VEECK

Atmosphere Attitude Baseball
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
BILL VEECK

Break Elasticity Tests
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.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Joy Running
Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
BILL VEECK

Betetr Echoes Pichetr Sober
I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
BILL VEECK

Believe Clear Details
I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
BILL VEECK

Athlete Guy Want
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.
BILL VEECK

Always Outside Possibility Smack Watching
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Games Late
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 VEECK

Cooperstown Group Plague Rampaging Rowdy
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
BILL VEECK

Attitude Baseball Self
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.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Basketball Football

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