Bill Veeck Quotes
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Venezuelan baseball is more aggressive, more passionate, more exciting. The fans are not the same as in your native country.
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In winter, the Icelanders told the tales of the brave men of old in their families, and so the tradition was handed on from father to son, the same stories told every winter, till all the particulars became well known.
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You've achieved success in your field when you don't know whether what you're doing is work or play.
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Baseball can be slow in many ways. The action starts with when the pitcher delivers the ball. But the action really starts when the crack of the bat happens.
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I found out early in life that I could hit a baseball farther than most players, and that's what I tried to do.
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The work that we do during the winter is very important; we have a new bike and it's important to develop it during this time, and we start with this test.
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If you tell me I can't eat something, I'll obsess over it and end up overeating!
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Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
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Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
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Laughter is the sun that drives winter from the human face.
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I don't know what you guys say, but at home, life is way different from baseball.
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My first interest in baseball is the welfare of baseball itself. My second is the Cincinnati Reds, and my third is Warren Giles.
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People know more about baseball players' contracts than they do about the policies that govern the fate of our children's lives in twenty years. Think about it. People used to say, the whole time I was growing up, 'Do you want to bring a child into this world?' That's pretty dire.
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I knew that I was a gay boy fairly early; what was interesting to me was that my mother didn't know. She made me play baseball - I had no desire to do that. I said, 'Mom, I don't like direct sunlight, I don't like bugs, I don't like grass, and I'd rather be in the house playing with your fabric samples.'
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Baseball is a team game.
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Al Kaline bought a tee and a ball and swung at it all winter. Look where it got him: the Hall of Fame.
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The winter solstice has always been special to me as a barren darkness that gives birth to a verdant future beyond imagination, a time of pain and withdrawal that produces something joyfully inconceivable, like a monarch butterfly masterfully extracting itself from the confines of its cocoon, bursting forth into unexpected glory.
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When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.
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When you lose your mother at 20 and then your father soon after, melancholia is part of your life.
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In my view, the key aim of economic policy in many countries, and particularly in Russia, should be the sort of policy that stimulates productivity growth because only on the basis of growth of labour productivity can we enjoy healthy growth.
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The omnipotence of evil has never resulted in anything but fruitless efforts. Our thoughts always escape from whoever tries to smother them.
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I'm an animal-rights person, actually. Big time.
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I think it's better to not know certain things. It gives the world an extra bit of mystery, which is important to us as human beings.
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There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.
