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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!…

Bill Veeck

I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Tests Trying
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Baseball Clip Paper
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Beautiful People Sports
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.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Inspirational Softball Sports
I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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Leadership Mind Sports
I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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Athlete Guy Want
Suffering is overated.
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Life Love Relationship
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!…
BILL VEECK

Baseball Reading Wall
Hating the Yankees isn’t part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
BILL VEECK

Art Baseball Hate
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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Games Play Stars
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
BILL VEECK

Baseball Softball
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
BILL VEECK

Funny Suffering Teach
I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
BILL VEECK

Break Elasticity Tests
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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Always Outside Possibility Smack Watching
How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
BILL VEECK

Sage Wisdom Wrinkle
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
BILL VEECK

Bats Sound Spring

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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