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Bill Veeck

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

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

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"Fields are won by those who believe in the winning."

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"An important scientific innovation rarely makes its way by gradually winning over and converting its opponents: What does happen is that the opponents gradually die out."

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"Winning starts with beginning."

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"Grandma cheated whenever she could. She cheated because it was a much more scientific and surer way of winning than trusting to luck."

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"If I'm going to be out there, I want to be in the top 10 and really have a chance of winning a Grand Slam."

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"What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning."

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"Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility."

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"And then to end up with a total of 347 wins, averaging 10 regular season wins for 33 years and the best winning percentage, and I'm very proud of this, of any professional team from 1970 to 1996."

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"Some Republicans gave up on winning the African-American vote, looking the other way or trying to benefit politically from racial polarization. I am here today as the Republican chairman to tell you we were wrong."

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"Those who have learned to behave as winners always end up winners."

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"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?"
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"The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball."
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"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."
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"The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going to do that they could hardly bear to wait out the two weeks. I was rather anxious to find out what I was going to do, too."
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"I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pretty devastating and dangerous."
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"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."
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"I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity."
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"The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people."
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"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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"Look, we play the Star Spangled Banner before every game. You want us to pay income taxes, too?"
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