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

- Bill Veeck

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

- Bill Veeck

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

- Bill Veeck

Tradition is the albatross around the neck of progress.

- Bill Veeck

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

- Bill Veeck

I don't mind the high price of stardom. I just don't like the high price of mediocrity.

- Bill Veeck

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

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

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