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.
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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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Suffering is overated.
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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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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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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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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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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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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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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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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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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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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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