Quotes by Bill Veeck

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

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

“I try not to kid myself. You know, I dont mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.”

“When youre out there in the big league pressure cooker, a pitchers attitude -- his utter confidence that he has an advantage of will and luck and guts over the hitter -- is almost as important as his stuff.”

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

““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.””

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

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

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world cant get you off.

Sometimes the best deals are the ones you dont make.

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

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world cant get you off.