The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
BILL VEECKI do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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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The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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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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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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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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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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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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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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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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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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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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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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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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