All Bill Veeck Quotes
- 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
- The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball. Ball
- Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't… Baseball
- I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price… Ballpark
- Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere. Atmosphere
- This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings. Baseball
- The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between. Baseball
- When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life. Ballparks
- If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox… All
- People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following - but I'll bet… Baseball
- After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park,… Around Desperately