Mike Veeck quote: "Do you know where he got the idea? ... From a William Saroyan play, 'The Time of Your Life,' that he saw with my mother. Near the end of the play there is a pinball machine that goes off like crazy. Dad couldn't stop thinking about it."

Of all the unusual things my father did in baseball, ... my favorite hands down was the exploding sc...
MIKE VEECK

There are only two seasons - winter and Baseball.
BILL VEECK

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.
BILL VEECK

I have discovered in 20 years of moving around a ballpark, that the knowledge of the game is usually...
BILL VEECK

When you're out there in the big league pressure cooker, a pitcher's attitude -- his utter confidenc...
BILL VEECK

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is pret...
BILL VEECK

I try not to break the rules but merely to test their elasticity.
BILL VEECK

The White Sox had long ago tested the loyalty of their rooters; the weak and faint of heart had fall...
BILL VEECK

Not really -- they lean towards cash.
BILL VEECK

The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of t...
BILL VEECK

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

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even ...
BILL VEECK

There are only two seasons -- winter and Baseball.
BILL VEECK

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

What can I do, I asked myself, that is so spectacular that no one will be able to say he had seen it...
BILL VEECK

Im for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the dreame...
BILL VEECK

“I’m for the dreamers. The only really important things in history have been started by the drea...
BILL VEECK

The Falstaff people, romantics all, went for it. They were so anxious to find out what I was going t...
BILL VEECK

I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear ...
BILL VEECK

After a month or so in St. Louis, we were looking around desperately for a way to draw a few people ...
BILL VEECK

I try not to kid myself. You know, I don't mind romancing someone else, but to fool yourself is ...
BILL VEECK

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

Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even ...
BILL VEECK

At the time that they were shown, the Brillo Boxes were underappreciated. It's only now, with th...
MIKE BIDLO

I was completely unqualified to get into Harvard. But then I went to my interview for Harvard, and t...
MIKE BIRBIGLIA

Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn't kill.
MIKE PENCE

If you try to do your best there is no failure.
MIKE FARRELL

A flower doesn't love you or hate you, it just exists.
MIKE WHITE

We are ramping up security in the United States but also looking at visa applicants, visa waiver app...
MIKE MCCAUL

For a dude, I think I do cook. I'm a stay-at-home parent a lot of the time.
MIKE D

Lofts are great. But with a home, there is a lot to be said for delineated space. To have the luxury...
MIKE D

We never set out to be superstars.
MIKE D

When you start rhyming, it's hard to find things that rhyme with Yauch, Horovitz and Diamond.
MIKE D

We're doing what we want to do, and that's why the kids respect us.
MIKE D

We are exercising our constitutional right to be fresh.
MIKE D

L.A. is a town built upon segregated, individual fantasies.
MIKE D

Each time you present a tour, you're faced with these questions of, 'How do you want to pres...
MIKE D

Maybe some people, when they sit down to write their great novel or make their great record or paint...
MIKE D

Wine needs to have a context in a social gathering to fulfill its historical place in this world.
MIKE D

I'm always careful to even guess, at any juncture, about things before we do them.
MIKE D

I feel no compunction to defend L.A. People criticize it, and for the most part, it's well-found...
MIKE D

In the time we made 'To the 5 Boroughs,' there was a political seriousness because of what w...
MIKE D

That's the thing with all of us music geeks - music is the soundtrack to the things that happen ...
MIKE D

We have rocked the ozone radically, man. They could probably fix the ozone if everybody stopped what...
MIKE D

I was showing up at the studio all the time with no bag, being like, 'I don't want to have a...
MIKE D

Having to wake up at seven and go take the subway every morning, having to get over there with all t...
MIKE D

I'm in need of a man apron. A very manly apron.
MIKE D

Thinking about the cold weather in England... Don't be afraid to rock the David Niven look.
MIKE D

Things change. I used to have a real resistance to it and hold on to things, but let things happen a...
MIKE D

Wine is similar to music in that it's a purely experiential realm, and it's a purely subject...
MIKE D

I don't think about Yauch in the form of his death. I think about him in the form of his life. H...
MIKE D

I was a nerdy punk-rock kid.
MIKE D

Real life is much stranger than fiction, man.
MIKE D

Rebellion has its roots in government's indifference and incompetence.
MIKE BARNICLE

My dad's gay experiences really had a very positive influence on me and my straight relationship...
MIKE MILLS

If Planned Parenthood wants to be involved in providing counseling services and HIV testing, they ou...
MIKE PENCE

One day before I die, I will finally understand why liberals, especially Jewish liberals, fail to fu...
MIKE GALLAGHER

Protection of religious freedom means considering the faiths and beliefs of everyone involved.
MIKE QUIGLEY

The drug dealers, they sympathize with me. They see me as some sort of pathetic character.
MIKE TYSON

I know how hard it is to be a woman, especially a black woman.
MIKE TYSON

I'm the biggest fighter in the history of the sport. If you don't believe it, check the cash...
MIKE TYSON

I think I'll take a bath in his blood.
MIKE TYSON

I've lived places these guys can't defecate in.
MIKE TYSON

I'm not Mother Teresa, but I'm not Charles Manson, either.
MIKE TYSON

Greatness is not guarding yourself from the people; greatness is being accepted by the people.
MIKE TYSON

Some people try to get you out of slavery for you to be their slave.
MIKE TYSON

When you see me smash somebody's skull, you enjoy it.
MIKE TYSON

That equals to being a fool, having fame and no fortune. A lot of guys out there have fame doing thi...
MIKE TYSON

Real freedom is having nothing. I was freer when I didn't have a cent.
MIKE TYSON

I don't try to intimidate anybody before a fight. That's nonsense. I intimidate people by hi...
MIKE TYSON

You come home, and you party. But after that, you get a hangover. Everything about that is negative.
MIKE TYSON

I don't understand why people would want to get rid of pigeons. They don't bother no one.
MIKE TYSON

God lets everything happen for a reason. It's all a learning process, and you have to go from on...
MIKE TYSON

Everybody's got plans... until they get hit.
MIKE TYSON

As long as we persevere and endure, we can get anything we want.
MIKE TYSON

My biggest weakness is my sensitivity. I am too sensitive a person.
MIKE TYSON

When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his he...
MIKE TYSON

If I went by all the rejection I've had in my career, I should have given up a long time ago.
MIKE MYERS

As would-be songwriters, our interest was in black music and black music only. We wanted to write so...
MIKE STOLLER

I love Broadway shows.
MIKE BIRBIGLIA

For most of the '90s and the first part of this decade, content providers who wanted to publish ...
MIKE DAVIDSON

We found a way to make things look great to the human eye through the window of a graphical web brow...
MIKE DAVIDSON

I'm the chairman of the intelligence committee. We don't only get formal briefings, but we c...
MIKE ROGERS

I have a little pocket Bible that I have with me all the time in my briefcase, and so usually in the...
MIKE HUCKABEE

If I dream that I'm directing, it's not a film, it's like a commercial for cotton candy,...
MIKE BIRBIGLIA

You can have the best technology, but you if have a corrupted, radicalized, bribed official that has...
MIKE MCCAUL

You can have the best technology, but if you have an inside job of a worker that has access to the p...
MIKE MCCAUL

Risk is the factor of a stratagem measured by what man is powerless to control.
MIKE NORTON

The true measure of a man is not what he dreams, but what he aspires to be; a dream is nothing witho...
MIKE NORTON

By sabotaging logic, the common frame of reference, and the common language, we have removed a "safe...
MIKE KLEPPER

The reason that most British actors are better than most American actors in the end is that they don...
MIKE NICHOLS

We're thrilled to expand our relationship, knowing that with the great team at the Music Group, ...
MIKE CURB

In making the jump from a local program to the showcase of a coast-to-coast broadcast, Ted Yates and...
MIKE WALLACE

In my home state of Indiana, we prove every day that you can build a growing economy on balanced bud...
MIKE PENCE

Budgets are moral documents. Federal funding should reflect the priorities and the values of the maj...
MIKE PENCE

I'm still very bullish on emerging markets. There's an emerging middle class. They're a ...
MIKE DUKE

Legal and bureaucratic impediments to surveillance should be removed.
MIKE POMPEO

To the degree that we can demonstrate support for the Ukrainian government, we can change Putin'...
MIKE POMPEO

Honest to goodness, Brian Campbell, he was holding the Cup, and there was no one around for a minute...
MIKE QUIGLEY

Negative campaigning is wrong.
MIKE PENCE

I think you need a really strong businessperson running the state, a person who's used to turnin...
MIKE CURB

There's no doubt West Point impacted who I am... It has an enormous emphasis, not only on milita...
MIKE POMPEO

A great thing is happening on cable TV. You see characters change in stories over years, like in Tol...
MIKE NICHOLS

Beauty and the Beast seemed like it all was really brown. The whole thing was just so brown and oran...
MIKE JUDGE

Well, I think the reality is that as you study - when President Kennedy cut marginal tax rates, when...
MIKE PENCE

Remember, the Boston bombers were Chechen rebels.
MIKE MCCAUL

If a natural disaster like a flock of birds or a bolt of lightning causes a plane's engines to f...
MIKE GALLAGHER

Cardinal Raymond Burke is a 66-year-old guy who lives in Rome, dresses like Queen Elizabeth, and tal...
MIKE BARNICLE

Justin Timberlake is the single most talented human being I've ever met in my life, and it sicke...
MIKE MYERS

Money, the root of all evil...but the cure for all sadness.
MIKE GILL

I've loved traveling around the country and meeting people at book signings.
MIKE GALLAGHER

I think I make films to help bolster and feed the part of me that wants to remain in a positive rela...
MIKE MILLS

Boldness isn't something you're born with; you either choose it or you don't.
MIKE YACONELLI

I was very much a late bloomer. That's not to say that girls didn't express interest in me f...
MIKE BIRBIGLIA

Denver and Boulder are good record-buying cities. I don't know why.
MIKE D

The real acts of a real devil you know have been made acceptable by the fictitious actions of a none...
MIKE KLEPPER

Yahweh: You've been unhappy because you've desired things that cannot be.

Lucif...
MIKE CAREY

Do you know where he got the idea? ... From a William Saroyan play, 'The Time of Your Life,' that he saw with my mother. Near the end of the play there is a pinball machine that goes off like crazy. Dad couldn't stop thinking about it.

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Do you know where he got the idea? ... From a William Saroyan play, 'The Time of Your Life,' that he saw with my mother. Near the end of the play there is a pinball machine that goes off like crazy. Dad couldn't stop thinking about it.

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