I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
BILL VEECKI believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
BILL VEECKThe season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
BILL VEECKSuffering is overated.
BILL VEECKWhat 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!…
BILL VEECKI don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
BILL VEECKBaseball 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 VEECKI don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
BILL VEECKThere are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
BILL VEECKBaseball 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 VEECKDeplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
BILL VEECKWhen 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.
BILL VEECKThe most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
BILL VEECKLook, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
BILL VEECKThis is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
BILL VEECKEvery baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
BILL VEECKIt never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
BILL VEECK