Bill Veeck

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…

— Bill Veeck

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

— 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,…

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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

People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following -…

— Bill Veeck

I don't break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.

— Bill Veeck

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion…

— Bill Veeck

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

— Bill Veeck

Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed

— Bill Veeck

Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.

— Bill Veeck

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

Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.

— Bill Veeck

If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of…

— Bill Veeck

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