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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

I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity. — 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 overrated. It doesn't teach you anything. — Bill Veeck

I don't want the natural athlete
I want a guy who'll go after the hard ones. — Bill Veeck

Suffering is overated. — Bill Veeck

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball. — Bill Veeck

Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress. — 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

Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed — 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

I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details. — 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

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too? — Bill Veeck

It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted. — Bill Veeck