Explore Quotes by Bill Veeck

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.

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?

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

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.

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.

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.

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.

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

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.

Hating the Yankees isn't part of my act. It is one of those exquisite times when life and art are in perfect conjunction.

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.

How can you be a sage if you're pretty? You can't get your wizard papers without wrinkles.

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.

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.

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.

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

If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.

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

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

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.