I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
BILL VEECKNext to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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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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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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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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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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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Suffering is overated.
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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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I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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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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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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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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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 try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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