I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
BILL VEECKLook, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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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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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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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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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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Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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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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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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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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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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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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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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Suffering is overated.
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