When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
BILL VEECKWhat 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!…
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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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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Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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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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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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How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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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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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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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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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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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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This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
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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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