How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
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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Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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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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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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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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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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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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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
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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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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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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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