There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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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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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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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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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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I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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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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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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Suffering is overated.
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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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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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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.
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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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