Bill Veeck Quotes

You can have the best team in baseball, and if nobody goes through the turnstiles, you've got to shut the doors down.

If you go to a Liberty game, they're fun basketball games to go to. But I'll be damned if I know how to get people to go to those games.

We know there is a very powerful fan base for Liverpool in Asia. We are not embarrassed to say we want to exploit that.

The better job we do of getting the right fans in the right seats at the right time, the more money our clients are going to make.

Welcome to the Nou Camp stadium in Barcelona that is packed to capacity... with some patches of seats left empty.

We should reach out to people to try to go after the fans the way other sports do. Because we can't just depend on the fact that it is a great game.

If people don't want to come to the ballpark, how are you going to stop them?

Sports has always been a pass-through. You pay for something, and then you pass it through to television, you pass it through to advertisers, or you pass it through to season-ticket holders, luxury boxes and then the fans. Then it all adds up, and you take in more than you pass out.

There's nothing wrong with trying to reach out to new fans.

In the 1970s, professional sports found a different breed of team owner in George Steinbrenner of the New York Yankees.

I do send out information about my books. Very few people buy the books that way, but I always feel that if they want to know more about the process, they can get the information from my books.

Cricket cannot afford to throw up meaningless games before its benefactors, which is what spectators and television audiences are.

Certainly toward the end of the season, you and I could be in a ballpark and they might say the crowd is 30,000, and we could look around and see that there was no more than 10,000.

Even if I tried to fill up the stadium in Ramat Gan, I don't think I could.

I know if I don't tour people will forget the record and you run a high risk of the record failing.

Professional sports is a business.

It's show business. No show, no business.

Having bands in the NFL would take up seats. If you take up seats in the NFL, you're losing money.

You have to show high school players that fans care about your program, that they're gonna be at the games. I think that's a huge key to success in college basketball.

I think I'd like to be an owner of a Major League Baseball team.

Owning a popular sports team is very different than any other type of business. They don't throw parades when Apple has the biggest quarter in corporate history. People don't call and email asking for anyone from the team to come visit their sick child. They don't cry as they request a jersey of their child's favorite player to be buried with them.

It's always cool when somebody from a football team or baseball team comes to your show.

In sports, big names and celebrities drive events, and that's what people gravitate to.

It's a natural push and pull that exists in any sports organization. When you are in a big market and then you win, and you're up against the Yankees, and ratings are what they are and attendance is what it is, no one wants to go backwards; as a business, you don't want to go backwards.

The whole point is it's about getting as many people to come and see the play as you can.