The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
BILL VEECKWake 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….
More Bill Veeck Quotes
-
-
I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
BILL VEECK -
There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
BILL VEECK -
Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
BILL VEECK -
Suffering is overated.
BILL VEECK -
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.
BILL VEECK -
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
BILL VEECK -
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
BILL VEECK -
I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
BILL VEECK -
I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
BILL VEECK -
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.
BILL VEECK -
How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
BILL VEECK -
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
BILL VEECK -
Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
BILL VEECK -
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
BILL VEECK -
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
BILL VEECK