Bill Veeck Quotes About Baseball

Quotes about: Baseball

• There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Winter, Mlb

• 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

  Softball, Baseball, Inspirational Sports

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

• I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Trying, Tests

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

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Attitude, Self

• If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.

  Bill Veeck

  Motivational, Baseball, People

• 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

  Baseball, Moving, Games

  Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.119, University of Chicago Press

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

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Winning, Thinking

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

  Bill Veeck

  Softball, Baseball, Mlb

• 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

  Baseball, Art, Hate

• The season starts too early and finishes too late and there are too many games in between.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Games, Too Late

• 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

  Basketball, Baseball, Football

• An island of surety in a changing world.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Islands, World

• Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Attitude, Atmosphere

  Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.15, University of Chicago Press

• Three strikes, you're out. I don't care if you hire Edward Bennett Williams to defend you; three strikes, you're still out. Baseball is an island of stability in an unstable world.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Islands, Three

• 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 and dehydrated!... Wake up the echoes at the Hall of Fame and you will find that baseball's immortals were a rowdy and raucous group of men who would climb down off their plaques and go rampaging through Cooperstown, taking spoils.... Deplore it if you will, but Grover Cleveland Alexander drunk was a better pitcher than Grover Cleveland Alexander sober.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Wall, Reading

• Baseball is a boy's game that makes grown men cry.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Boys, Men

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

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Rooms, Individualism

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Paper, Clip

• 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

  Baseball, Team, Player

• 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 throws pointy objects at me.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Running, Joy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

• 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 Lancelot had more.

  Bill Veeck

  Baseball, Men, People

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