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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
#Dangerous
#Fool
#Mind
#Myself
#Yourself
I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?
- Bill Veeck
#Doing
#Game
#King
#Live
#Love
After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided.
- Bill Veeck
#Club
#Looking
#People
#Time
#Way
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
#Answer
#Bat
#Myself
#Say
#Will
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
#Game
#Knowledge
#Moving
#Price
#Years
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
- Bill Veeck
#Game
#Look
#Taxes
#Us
#Want
The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too.
- Bill Veeck
#Bear
#Find
#People
#Two
#Wait
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
- Bill Veeck
#Beautiful
#Most Beautiful
#People
#World
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
- Bill Veeck
#Ball
#Bat
#Sound
#Spring
#True
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
- Bill Veeck
#I Think
#Important
#Only
#Think
#Winning
I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.
- Bill Veeck
#Break
#Elasticity
#Rules
#Test
#Try
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
#Best
#Lawyer
#Sports
#Three
#World
There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.
- Bill Veeck
#Baseball
#Seasons
#Sports
#Two
#Winter
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
- Bill Veeck
#Attitude
#Audience
#Every
#Like
#Own
#Theatre
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