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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
Bill Veeck Quotes: Though it is a team
There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.
Bill Veeck Quotes: There are only two seasons
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
Bill Veeck Quotes: The season starts too early
Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed
Bill Veeck Quotes: Baseball is the only thing
I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?
Bill Veeck Quotes: I was in the game
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 Veeck Quotes: Hating the Yankees isn't part
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.
Bill Veeck Quotes: When the Supreme Court says
What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat.
Bill Veeck Quotes: What can I do, I
To give one can of beer to a thousand people is not nearly as much fun as to give 1,000 cans of beer to one guy. 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.
Bill Veeck Quotes: To give one can of
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.
Bill Veeck Quotes: Baseball is almost the only
Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.
Bill Veeck Quotes: Baseball is a boy's game
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
Bill Veeck Quotes: The true harbinger of spring
When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
Bill Veeck Quotes: When there is no room
If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.
Bill Veeck Quotes: If U.S. Grant had been
Suffering is overated.
Bill Veeck Quotes: Suffering is overated.
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.
Bill Veeck Quotes: People identify with the swashbuckling
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
Bill Veeck Quotes: I do not think that
Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.
Bill Veeck Quotes: Tradition is the albatross around
If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.
Bill Veeck Quotes: If you can't outsmart people,
If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
Bill Veeck Quotes: If there is any justice
How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
Bill Veeck Quotes: How can you be a
After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided.
Bill Veeck Quotes: After a month or so
I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details.
Bill Veeck Quotes: I believe in God, but
I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.
Bill Veeck Quotes: I don't mind the high
I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.
Bill Veeck Quotes: I try not to break
An island of surety in a changing world.
Bill Veeck Quotes: An island of surety in
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
Bill Veeck Quotes: This is a game to
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
Bill Veeck Quotes: Every baseball crowd, like every
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.
Bill Veeck Quotes: Baseball is the only game
It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.
Bill Veeck Quotes: It never ceases to amaze
Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything.
Bill Veeck Quotes: Suffering is overrated. It doesn't
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