When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
BILL VEECKBaseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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 the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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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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Suffering is overated.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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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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Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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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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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 mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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