The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball. Bill Veeck More Quotes by Bill Veeck More Quotes From Bill Veeck There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball. Bill Veeck mlb baseball winter 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 inspirational-sports baseball softball 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 white justice men I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity. Bill Veeck tests baseball trying 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 games moving 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 dreamer important done I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity. Bill Veeck leadership mind sports To give one can of beer to a thousand people is not nearly as much fun as to give 1,000 cans of beer to one guy. You give a thousand people a can of beer and each of them will drink it, smack his lips and go back to watching the game. You give 1,000 cans to one guy, and there is always the outside possibility that 50,000 people will talk about it. Bill Veeck games beer fun How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles. Bill Veeck sage wrinkles wisdom I don't want the natural athlete -- I want a guy who'll go after the hard ones. Bill Veeck guy athlete want It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted. Bill Veeck baseball self attitude The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people. Bill Veeck beautiful sports people Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too? Bill Veeck stars games play 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 wall reading baseball 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 mlb baseball softball I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details. Bill Veeck clear details believe Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything. Bill Veeck teach suffering funny 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 three baseball islands What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat. Bill Veeck bats able answers
