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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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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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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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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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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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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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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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!…
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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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This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Suffering is overated.
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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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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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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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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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