I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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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I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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Suffering is overated.
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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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This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
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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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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 want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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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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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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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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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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The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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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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