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

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Bill Veeck
Age: 71 †
Born: 1914
Born: February 9
Died: 1986
Died: January 2
Baseball Player
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Chicago
Illinois
William Louis Veeck
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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.
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Baseball is the only thing beside the paper clip that hasn't changed
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I don't want the natural athlete -- I want a guy who'll go after the hard ones.
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People identify with the swashbuckling individuals, not polite little men who field their position well. Sir Galahad had a big following - but I'll bet Lancelot had more.
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Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
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The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball.
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Though it is a team game by definition, it is actually a series of loosely connected individual efforts.
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I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
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To give one can of beer to a thousand people is not nearly as much fun as to give 1,000 cans of beer to one guy. You give a thousand people a can of beer and each of them will drink it, smack his lips and go back to watching the game. You give 1,000 cans to one guy, and there is always the outside possibility that 50,000 people will talk about it.
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The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
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This is a game to be savored, not gulped. There's time to discuss everything between pitches or between innings.
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I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details.
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If there is any justice in this world, to be a White Sox fan frees a man from any other form of penance.
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When there is no room for individualism in ballparks, then there will be no room for individualism in life.
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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.
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Suffering is overrated. It doesn't teach you anything.
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If U.S. Grant had been leading a team of baseball players, they'd have second guessed him all the way to the doorknob of the Appomattox Courthouse.
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I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous.
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It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.
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I try not to break the rules, but merely to test their elasticity.
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