Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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 believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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Suffering is overated.
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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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I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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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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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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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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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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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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Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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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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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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