Bill Veeck Quotes

It's a beautiful thing, baseball.

When I grew up, baseball was the No. 1 sport.

I've always been a great lover of baseball.

Baseball just a came as simple as a ball and bat. Yet, as complex as the American spirit it symbolizes. A sport, a business and sometimes almost even a religion.

Baseball has been my favorite sport all my life.

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

A baseball game is simply a nervous breakdown divided into nine innings.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

I live for baseball. That's how I grew up.

I don't find that much wrong with baseball.

Baseball is the greatest thing in the world.

Baseball's my life.

Where the ball went was up to heaven. Sometimes I threw the ball clean up into the stands.

Baseball is a man maker.

Well, my favorite sport as a kid was clearly baseball.

Baseball is a game where a curve is an optical illusion, a screwball can be a pitch or a person, stealing is legal and you can spit anywhere you like except in the umpire's eye or on the ball.

When push comes to shove, baseball is one of my favorite things in the world.

The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.

Many baseball fans look upon an umpire as a sort of necessary evil to the luxury of baseball, like the odor that follows an automobile.

That's the remarkable thing about baseball. The game has a way of having you scratch your head one minute and drive you crazy, and then the next, you're entertained beyond your wildest hopes. That's why it's the best game.

You've got a little round ball and a little round bat and anything can happen.

Baseball represents family. It represents my childhood.

Baseball is the life.

It's a round ball and a round bat, and you got to hit it square.

Baseball is the greatest sport in the world. It is the cleanest, besides affording more people the right kind of amusement than any other. I do not say that because I have made my living at it. I say it from the heart.