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.
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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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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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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I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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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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I don’t mind the high price of stardom. I just don’t like the high price of mediocrity.
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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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I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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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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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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