How can you be a sage if you’re pretty? You can’t get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
BILL VEECKI believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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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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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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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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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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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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The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball’s wounds are self-inflicted.
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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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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I don’t want the natural athlete — I want a guy who’ll go after the hard ones.
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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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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Suffering is overrated. It doesn’t teach you anything.
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