The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
BILL VEECKThe true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
BILL VEECKPeople 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.
BILL VEECKWhen there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
BILL VEECKNext to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
BILL VEECKBaseball 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 VEECKThis is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
BILL VEECKSuffering is overated.
BILL VEECKI try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
BILL VEECKI don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
BILL VEECKLook, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
BILL VEECKEvery baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
BILL VEECKWhat 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 VEECKBaseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
BILL VEECKWhen 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 VEECKIf there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
BILL VEECKI do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
BILL VEECK