67 Quotes by Bill Veeck

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

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

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

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

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.

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

If you can't outsmart people, outwork them.

I don't want the natural athlete -- I want a guy who'll go after the hard ones.

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