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.
BILL VEECKWhen there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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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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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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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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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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The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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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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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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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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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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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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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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