I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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 don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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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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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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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 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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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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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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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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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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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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How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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