Bill Veeck Quotes
"I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity."
- Bill Veeck
(Related: Rules)
"I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats."
- Bill Veeck
(Related: Knowledge, Years)
"After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided."
- Bill Veeck
(Related: Time, People, Being)
"I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous."
- Bill Veeck
(Related: Fool, Mind, Pretty)
"Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere."
- Bill Veeck
(Related: Attitude, Baseball, Theatre)
"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
(Related: Baseball, World)
"The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball."
- Bill Veeck
(Related: Sound, Spring, Swallows)
"There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball."
- Bill Veeck
(Related: Baseball, Seasons, Winter)
"What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat."
- Bill Veeck
(Related: Obvious, Will)
"The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too."
- Bill Veeck
(Related: People)
"I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?"
- Bill Veeck
(Related: Love, Old)
"Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?"
- Bill Veeck
(Related: Income, Play, Taxes, Want)
"The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people."
- Bill Veeck
(Related: People, World)