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 VEECKBaseball 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.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
-
-
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
BILL VEECK -
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
BILL VEECK -
If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
BILL VEECK -
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
BILL VEECK -
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
BILL VEECK -
How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
BILL VEECK -
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.
BILL VEECK -
Suffering is overated.
BILL VEECK -
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
BILL VEECK -
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
BILL VEECK -
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!…
BILL VEECK -
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 VEECK -
When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
BILL VEECK -
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
BILL VEECK -
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
BILL VEECK