Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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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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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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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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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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I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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When the Supreme Court says baseball isn’t run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the same thing, everybody throws pointy objects at me.
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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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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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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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The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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