Quotes by Bill Veeck

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
I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing.
– Bill Veeck
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
I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.
– Bill Veeck
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
Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?
– Bill Veeck
The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
– Bill Veeck
There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.
– Bill Veeck
When you're out there in the big league pressure cooker, a pitcher's 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.
– Bill Veeck
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
– Bill Veeck