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Baseball Quotes by Bill Veeck
- It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.
- 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…
- 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…
- If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.
- Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed
- 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…
- 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.
- Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
- I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
- There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.
- 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…
- 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…
- Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
- This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
- The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
- When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
- 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…
- 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…
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- It's a great day for a ball game; let's play two! — Ernie Banks
- Awards mean a lot, but they don't say it all. The people in baseball mean more to me than statistics. — Ernie Banks
- Whoever wants to know the heart and mind of America had better learn baseball, the rules and realities of the game -… — Jacques Barzun
- Baseball may be our national pastime, but the age-old tradition of taking a swing at Congress is a sport with even deeper… — Evan Bayh
- A catcher and his body are like the outlaw and his horse. He's got to ride that nag till it drops. — Johnny Bench
- Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets. — Yogi Berra
- Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical. — Yogi Berra