Quotes from Bill Veeck

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

Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.

It never ceases to amaze me how many of baseball's wounds are self-inflicted.

I have discovered in twenty years of moving around a ball park, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats.

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.

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

I believe in God, but I'm not too clear on the other details.

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.

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

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.

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

It isn't the high price of stars that is expensive; it's the high price of mediocrity.

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

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.

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.

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.

Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don't make.

There are only two seasons - winter and baseball.

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.