I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
BILL VEECKI believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
More Bill Veeck Quotes
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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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There are only two seasons – winter and Baseball.
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn’t changed
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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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I don’t break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.
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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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Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
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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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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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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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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 overated.
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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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I believe in God, but I’m not too clear on the other details.
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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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