Bill Veeck

I do not think that winning is the most important thing. I think winning is the only thing. ”

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous. ”

What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it before? The answer was perfectly obvious. I would send a midget up to bat. ”

I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do? ”

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball. ”

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually in inverse proportion to the price of the seats. ”

After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people into the ball park, it being perfectly clear by that time that the ball club wasn't going to do it unaided. ”

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