All Bill Veeck Quotes
- It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted. Amaze
- 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… Baseball
- Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything. Funny
- I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing. Important
- Suffering is overated. Life
- 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… Alexander
- If you can't outsmart people, outwork them. Baseball
- The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people. Ballpark
- Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too? Banner
- Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed Baseball
- If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance. Any
- 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… Beer
- 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… Baseball
- 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. Baseball
- I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details. Believe
- How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles. Paper
- 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… Able
- Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction. Act
- I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous. Dangerous
- I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity. Baseball
- I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity. High
- I don't want the natural athlete -- I want a guy who'll go after the hard ones. Athlete
- 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… All
- 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… All
- There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball. Baseball