Bill Veeck Quotes
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.
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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…
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Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything.
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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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Suffering is overated.
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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…
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If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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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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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed
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If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
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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…
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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…
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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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I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details.
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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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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…
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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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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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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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