Explore Quotes by Bill Veeck

If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.

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.

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

Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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