Bill Veeck Quotes
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The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
— Bill Veeck
An island of surety in a changing world.
— Bill Veeck
I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.
— Bill Veeck
Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
— Bill Veeck
I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.
— Bill Veeck
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
— Bill Veeck
Bill Veeck was a charismatic and somewhat eccentric owner-fan during the post-WWII years.
— Don Yaeger
Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.
— Bill Veeck
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 Courthouse.
— Bill Veeck
If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.
— Bill Veeck
Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.
— Bill Veeck
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.
— Bill Veeck
Suffering is overated.
— Bill Veeck
There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.
— Bill Veeck
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 of the seats.
— Bill Veeck
This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
— Bill Veeck
If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
— Bill Veeck
Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.
— Bill Veeck
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 be the same width.
— Bill Veeck
If there are bleachers in heaven and a warm sun, that's where you'll find Bill Veeck.
— Charles Kuralt
How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.
— Bill Veeck
The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.
— Bill Veeck
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
— Bill Veeck
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 get you off.
— Bill Veeck
When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
— Bill Veeck