Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
BILL VEECKBaseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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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 overated.
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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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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
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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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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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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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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 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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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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The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to 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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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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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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Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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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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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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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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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
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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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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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