I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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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 don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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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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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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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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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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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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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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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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How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
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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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