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 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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I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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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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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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Suffering is overated.
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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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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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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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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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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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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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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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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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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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This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There’s time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
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