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.
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
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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 try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Suffering is overated.
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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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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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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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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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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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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 don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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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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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.
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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 mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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