Bill Veeck Quotes
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
Quotes to Explore
-
There's always the motivation of wanting to win. Everybody has that. But a champion needs, in his attitude, a motivation above and beyond winning.
-
A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.
-
There is little difference in people, but that little difference makes a big difference. The little difference is attitude. The big difference is whether it is positive or negative.
-
In Gnosticism, the physical world did not ultimately matter - which meant physical suffering did not matter either. Seeking 'enlightenment' meant cultivating an attitude of detachment, even indifference.
-
I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.
-
If you have a positive attitude and constantly strive to give your best effort, eventually you will overcome your immediate problems and find you are ready for greater challenges.
-
My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.
-
Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.
-
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
-
There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.
-
My mother's side of the family was in the production side of theatre. My grandfather, Jose Vega, was a general manager for Neil Simon shows on Broadway.
-
It's a scary thing going into the workforce with a $50,000 debt and you've been trained as a classical theatre actor. There's always a depression in the theatre.
-
Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.
-
In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
-
I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.
-
I lived the baseball life as a kid, with my dad in it. And I lived the baseball life as an adult, because I was in it. When I retired, I wanted the opportunity to be a little bit more flexible and home-based for my kids.
-
If philosophy is practice, a demand to know the manner in which its history is to be studied is entailed: a theoretical attitude toward it becomes real only in the living appropriation of its contents from the texts.
-
I have goals and ambitions, and I see myself as a lifelong baseball student. I have certain philosophies that I'd like to test at some point at the big league level. The job of manager appeals to me, a coach appeals to me, at a different time frame.
-
As an actor, I always think that if someone does pick up a phone during a performance, something dire must be happening in their lives that is more important than theatre - some kind of tragedy they were attending to, or something. It's very uncomfortable if you don't know why they would pick up a phone and talk in the middle of a show.
-
Right after 'Raymond' I had a world-is-my-oyster attitude, but I found out I don't like oysters. I had this existential emptiness. 'What is my purpose? Who am I?' I had a big identity crisis.
-
There are many bespoke services in the U.K., but everything's quite old-fashioned. There wasn't anything young and modern and fresh. We're this young service, where a 25-year-old might come and get some great skirts and her mum could come in for some linens.
-
There are so many sounds I still want to make, so many things I haven't yet done.
-
The good we secure for ourselves is precarious and uncertain until it is secured for all of us and incorporated into our common life.
-
Every baseball crowd, like every theatre audience, has its own distinctive attitude and atmosphere.
