Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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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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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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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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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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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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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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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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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This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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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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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 do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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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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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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