How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
BILL VEECKYou 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.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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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 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 the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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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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I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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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 don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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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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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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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 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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