Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
BILL VEECKThe season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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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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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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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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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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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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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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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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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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Suffering is overated.
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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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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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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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