The 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?
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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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 want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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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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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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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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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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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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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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Suffering is overated.
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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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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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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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How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
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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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