67 Quotes by Bill Veeck

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

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

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

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

Three strikes, you’re out. I don’t care if you hire Edward Bennett Williams to defend you; three strikes, you’re still out. Baseball is an island of stability in an unstable world.

Baseball is a boy’s game that makes grown men cry.

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

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.