Bill Veeck Quotes

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

Bill Veeck

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• 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.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Winning
  • Attitude
  • motivation

• A strong positive mental attitude will create more miracles than any wonder drug.

  

  Patricia Neal
  • Strong
  • Wonder
  • Positive

• 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.

  

  W. Clement Stone
  • People
  • Positive
  • Attitude

• 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.

  

  Nancy Pearcey
  • World
  • Suffering
  • Attitude

• I love everybody. One of the great things about me is that I have a very positive attitude.

  

  Imelda Marcos
  • Great
  • 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.

  

  Pat Riley
  • Best
  • Positive
  • Effort

• My life as Mrs. Leo Durocher and baseball come first.

  

  Laraine Day
  • Life
  • Baseball
  • My Life

• Baseball is ninety percent mental. The other half is physical.

  

  Yogi Berra
  • Baseball
  • Percent
  • Mental

• Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

  

  Babe Ruth
  • World
  • Game
  • Best

• There's such a sense of theatre in getting glammed up; it's like putting on a play or short film.

  

  Felicity Jones
  • Up
  • Play
  • Theatre

• 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.

  

  Yancy Butler
  • Family
  • Mother
  • Theatre

• 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.

  

  Frances McDormand
  • Always
  • Theatre
  • Scary

• 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.

  

  Earl Weaver
  • Time
  • Work
  • Fun

• In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.

  

  Jackie Robinson
  • Years
  • Baseball
  • Idea

• I started in theatre. I went to the Boston Conservatory and majored in musical theater.

  

  Rachael MacFarlane
  • Theatre
  • Theater
  • Boston

• 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.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Life
  • Home
  • 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.

  

  Karl Jaspers
  • Real
  • History
  • Practice

• 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.

  

  Cal Ripken, Jr.
  • Time
  • Different
  • Job

• Any child soldier has to go through a lot of love, care and understanding to become normal.

  

  Emmanuel Jal
  • Understanding
  • Soldier

• Heroes come in all sizes, and you don't have to be a giant hero. You can be a very small hero. It's just as important to understand that accepting self-responsibi lity for the things you do, having good manners, caring about other people-these are heroic acts. Everybody has the choice of being a hero or not being a hero every day of their lives.

  

  George Lucas
  • Good
  • Choices
  • Hero

• We've all seen the media endlessly focus on the personal lives of celebrities. Most of it is gossip and tabloid fodder.

  

  Alana Stewart
  • Focus
  • Gossip

• People want to call me racist for doing the Bon Qui Qui character, and I'm like, 'Look, Bon Qui Qui is a representation of a hood chick. That's it.' There are lots of hood chicks out there: some are black, some are Mexican, some are Salvadorian, and some are white.

  

  Anjelah Johnson
  • People
  • Character
  • Black

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

  

  Bill Veeck
  • Attitude
  • Baseball
  • Theatre