It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
BILL VEECKWhen 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.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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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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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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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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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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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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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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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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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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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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I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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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 do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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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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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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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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