I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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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How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
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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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People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following – but I’ll bet Lancelot had more.
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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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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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I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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Suffering is overated.
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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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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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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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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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I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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