The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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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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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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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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 don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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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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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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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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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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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 believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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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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