Hating the Yankees isn’t part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
BILL VEECKHow can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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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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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.
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Suffering is overated.
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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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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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I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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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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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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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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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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The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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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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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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