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.
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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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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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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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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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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I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Suffering is overated.
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Hating the Yankees isn’t part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
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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 believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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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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Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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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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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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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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