Bill Veeck Quotes

I played baseball, football, basketball my whole life growing up.

I like football, baseball, basketball, golf, racing.

I miss playing baseball. Just being able to swing the bat, or run, or dive for a ball, or slide into second. If I could even do that in a softball league, I would never miss anything about baseball. I don't miss the crowds or the travel or even being in the big leagues. I just miss being able to take batting practice and being able to swing as hard as I can. That's all I miss.

Baseball and football are very different games. In a way, both of them are easy. Football is easy if you're crazy as hell. Baseball is easy if you've got patience. They'd both be easier for me if I were a little more crazy - and a little more patient.

Baseball is fathers and sons. Football is brothers beating each other up in the backyard.

I grew up playing everything from rugby, football, baseball, volleyball, bike races and boxing. I tried martial arts, loved to ride horses and I'm the youngest of three brothers, so it was a fiercely competitive family.

I'd love to play basketball with the president, or throw the football around or something like that.

I love baseball. And American Football, too. But not rugby.

It took me a while to realize that basketball wasn't football.

I'm truly passionate about basketball. I'm not as passionate about baseball as I am about basketball, but I watch baseball and I watch football. I love sports in general.

I like playing all sports, from football to soccer, and I love playing baseball.

I'm a big sports guy - golf, tennis, baseball, basketball, snowboarding - and I love games.

The game is just, everybody talks about baseball, but I really think football probably has a little bit more American feeling than anything.

You can play pickup basketball, but you can't really re-create football.

I grew up playing hockey and baseball, so I wish I had time to get back into it, but living in L.A. and North Carolina, you have to take advantage of the golf.

I liked football a lot, too, but basketball clearly is my first love.

It's really football, tennis, and golf that I watch other than hockey.

I originally was more into baseball and football, but being in Los Angeles, you just couldn't help but to fall in love with the game of basketball because they had such a winning tradition.

I started out real young as a tight end, but I was never getting the football. I knew when I played basketball, I loved to have control of the ball. When I played baseball, I was a pitcher. I always wanted to be the guy throwing the passes and making a difference, I guess.

I spent a lot of my childhood growing up in Oklahoma, where I wrestled and played baseball.

I played all sports coming up in Texas. I played basketball, football, baseball, ran track. All through high school I did all of that.

I wanted to have a career in sports when I was young, but I had to give up the idea. I'm only six feet tall, so I couldn't play basketball. I'm only 190 pounds, so I couldn't play football, and I have 20/20 vision, so I couldn't be a referee.

I've played everything - baseball, football, basketball. I can still swim a mile a day. That's why I can't walk.

I was a kid who loved to play games. Any kind of game, any kind of ball. Give me a baseball, give me a basketball, give me something I can bounce and throw.

Football can stand parity better than any of the other sports, I think. Baseball, basketball and hockey need a defining team, in essence to frame the season. Football? Not so much.