Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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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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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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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 believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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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 overated.
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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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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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I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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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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I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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