Bill Veeck Quotes
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I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.
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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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There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.
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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.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.
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I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details.
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Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything.
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Three strikes, you're out. I don't care if you hire Edward Bennett Williams to defend you; three strikes, you're still out. Baseball is an island of stability in an unstable world.
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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 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.
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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!... 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.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.
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The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.
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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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I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.
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I'm for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what can't be done.
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Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.
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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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An island of surety in a changing world.
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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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I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed
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Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
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Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.
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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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Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
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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 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 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?
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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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