Bill Veeck

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.

Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

It's good to like yourself, and that only comes from hard work, from doing. But vanity is dangerous; it can trip you badly.

Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die.

By pouring money and goods into devastated regions, foreign aid workers sometimes compound the disruption and debauch the survivors.