I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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
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Suffering is overated.
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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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Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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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 the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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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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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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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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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Baseball 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.
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People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following – but I’ll bet Lancelot had more.
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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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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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