The best Quotes by Bill Veeck

The best Quotes by Bill Veeck

William Louis Veeck Jr. (February 9, 1914 – January 2, 1986), also known as "Sport Shirt Bill" and "Wild Bill" was an American Major League Baseball franchise owner and promoter. Veeck was at various times the owner of the Cleveland Indians, the St. Louis Browns, and the Chicago White Sox.

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

Ambition Winning

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.

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If believing in yourself and going after what you want in life and realising your worth is ruthless and selfish, then I'm definitely ruthless and selfish.

Nicole Scherzinger

Ambition Egoism

Good, better, best. Never let it rest. Until your good is better and your better is the best.

My dad always told me, "I don't care what you do. Just aim to be the best at it. Even if it's the world's best window cleaner."

Bruce Dickinson

Your love makes me strong, your hate makes me unstoppable!

Cristiano Ronaldo

Ambition Hatred Leo ♌

When you're rowing a race and you get to the last 20 meters your entire body is telling you to stop. Your muscles are on fire. Your lungs are screaming at you. Everything inside you wants to quit, make the pain go away. But if you want to win, that's exactly when you dig deeper and you row harder.

Skylar in The In Between

Ambition Sports

Dream big and anything is possible!

DeMarcus Cousins

Second is the first of the losers.

Enzo Ferrari

Reality is something you rise above.

Liza Minnelli

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Ambition Reality

Don't tell me the sky's the limit when there are footprints on the moon!

Harlan Coben in The Woods

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The guy who wants too much risks losing absolutely everything. Of course, the guy who wants too little from life might not get anything at all.

Tommy Angelo in Mafia

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Ambition Risk Wise Sayings

Challenge yourself; it's the only path which leads to growth.

Morgan Freeman

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

There's winning and there's losing - and in life both will happen. What is never acceptable to me is quitting.

Magic Johnson

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Ambition Giving Up

If you are not willing to risk the unusual, you will have to settle for the ordinary.

Winning isn't getting ahead of others, it is getting ahead of yourself.

Roger Staubach

Everything's a game, Avery Grambs. The only thing we get to decide in this life is if we play to win.

Jennifer Lynn Barnes in The Inheritance Games

The jaws of victory have many teeth!

Naafiri, the Hound of a Hundred Bites in League of Legends

Winning is an incredible joy that no woman can give you.

Boris Becker

I'm a winner; I win most of the time. But in order to be a winner, you have to lose some of the time. I'm a terrible loser.

Losing & Defeat Winning

It is said the wine of victory is sweetest for those in whose bitter trials it has fermented.

Elrond in The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power - Season 1 Episode 1

Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog.

Jenny Han in Summer Series - The Summer I Turned Pretty

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The only place that matters is first.

Max Verstappen

We win because we are determined, disciplined, not because we feel ourselves superior.

Kratos in God of War - 2018

You never win by yourself alone. The day you think otherwise is the day you'll start to lose.

Mika Häkkinen

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If you win without sacrifice you enjoy it but it's more satisfying when you have struggled.

Andrés Iniesta

Motivation Winning

Sometimes you have to accept you can't win all the time.

Lionel Messi

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Experience Winning

Any man who must say "We are winning," is not truly winning.

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Baseball is more than a sport, it's what drives me.

Corey Seager - May 2021

In baseball, I was a pitcher, which I hated because there was no action there.

Baseball is 90% mental and the other half is physical.

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

I think that to fully appreciate baseball, it helps to have been born in the U.S.

Khaled Hosseini

That's what I love about baseball, that it gives the opportunity for every single guy to develop and play the game. There's not a rule that you have to be 6 foot or you have to be real strong to play baseball or to become a good player.

Jose Altuve

You don't realize how easy this game is until you get up in that broadcasting booth.

Mickey Mantle

After I hit a home run I had a habit of running the bases with my head down. I figured the pitcher already felt bad enough without me showing him up rounding the bases.

Mickey Mantle

There are three things you can do in a baseball game. You can win, or you can lose, or it can rain.

Casey Stengel

I just want to play baseball.

David Ortiz

A baseball swing is a very finely tuned instrument. It is repetition, and more repetition, then a little more after that.

Reggie Jackson

I don't want to play golf. When I hit a ball, I want someone else to go chase it.

Rogers Hornsby

People ask me what I do in winter when there's no baseball. I'll tell you what I do. I stare out the window and wait for spring.

Rogers Hornsby

Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

But I don't understand why the Jeffrey Epstein case would be of interest to anybody. It's pretty boring stuff, it's sordid but it's boring and I don't understand why it keeps going.

Donald Trump - July 2025

The Epstein Files

There are two kinds of big companies in the United States. There are those who've been hacked by the Chinese, and those who don't know they've been hacked by the Chinese.

James Comey

I believe that Americans should be deeply skeptical of government power. You cannot trust people in power. The founders knew that. That's why they divided power among three branches, to set interest against interest.

James Comey

I will do everything if confirmed as FBI director to make sure the American public knows the full weight of what happened.

Kash Patel - Januar 2025

The Epstein Files

Technology has forever changed the world we live in. We're online, in one way or another, all day long. Our phones and computers have become reflections of our personalities, our interests, and our identities. They hold much that is important to us.

James Comey

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