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"Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off."

Bill Veeck on Sports

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  • "I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."

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  • "It's good sportsmanship to not pick up lost golf balls while they are still rolling."

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  • "When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro."

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  • "Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."

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More quotes by Bill Veeck

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

  • "Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off."

  • "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."

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