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….
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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Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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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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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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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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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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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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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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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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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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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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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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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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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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