I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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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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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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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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have to be the same width.
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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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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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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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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The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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