Hating the Yankees isn’t part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
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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The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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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 don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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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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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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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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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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This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
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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 believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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