Three strikes, you're out. I don't care if you hire Edward…

Suffering is overated.

— Bill Veeck

I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details.

— Bill Veeck

Im for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what cant be done.

— Bill Veeck

After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball…

— Bill Veeck

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

— Bill Veeck

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…

— Bill Veeck

If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.

— Bill Veeck

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…

— Bill Veeck

I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.

— Bill Veeck

Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.

— Bill Veeck

Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything.

— Bill Veeck

Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football, you have…

— Bill Veeck

“It isn’t the high price of stars that is expensive; it’s the high price of mediocrity.”

— Bill Veeck

When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.

— Bill Veeck

Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.

— Bill Veeck