
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing. —
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

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

Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress. —
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

If there are bleachers in heaven and a warm sun, that's where you'll find Bill
Veeck. —
Charles Kuralt

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

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

Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry. —
Bill Veeck

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

When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life. —
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

The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between. —
Bill Veeck

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles. —
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 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 the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed —
Bill Veeck

This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings. —
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

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

Suffering is overated. —
Bill Veeck

Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything. —
Bill Veeck