Bill Veeck Quotes - Page 2

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• Next to the confrontation between two highly honed batteries of lawyers, jungle warfare is a stately minuet.

  Bill Veeck

  Two, Next, Batteries

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• 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.

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  Baseball, Islands, Three

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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.

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  Kids, Mind, Trying

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• 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.

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  Baseball, Men, People

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• I don't break the rules. I merely test their elasticity.

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  Tests, Break, Elasticity

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• 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.

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  Basketball, Baseball, Football

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• 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?

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  Kings, Games, Legs

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

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• 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.

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  Two, People, Waiting

  Bill Veeck, Ed Linn (2012). “Veeck--As In Wreck: The Autobiography of Bill Veeck”, p.12, University of Chicago Press

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

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  Baseball, Paper, Clip

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• Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.

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  Team, Individual Effort, Games

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• 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.

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  Baseball, Running, Joy

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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

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  Baseball, Games, Too Late

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

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  Baseball, Rooms, Individualism

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

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• 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.

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  Baseball, Team, Player

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• An island of surety in a changing world.

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  Baseball, Islands, World

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• Suffering is overated.

  Bill Veeck

  Love, Life, Relationship

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