It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted. — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life. — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere. — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings. — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
Baseball is the only game left for people. To play basketball, you have to be 7 feet 6 inches. To play football,… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
Im for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreamers. They never know what cant… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball. — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between. — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following -… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
When the Supreme Court says baseball isn't run like a business, everybody jumps up and down with joy. When I say the… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
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… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
What we have are good gray ballplayers, playing a good gray game and reading the good gray Wall Street Journal. They have… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect… — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people. — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts. — Bill Veeck Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
