Baseball Defeat Quotes

#1. You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat. Losing after great striving is the story of man, who was born to sorrow, whose sweetest songs tell of saddest thought, and who, if he is a hero, does nothing in life as becomingly as leaving it.

Roger Kahn

#2. I consider myself a Chicagoan, and if anybody else does, that gratifies me.

Marv Levy

#3. Oh, precious losing streak,
you're too cute for your own good.
I try to laugh about it
but my face is made of wood.

Casey Renee Kiser

#4. One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.

Steven Erikson

#5. What really makes baseball so hard is it's retributive capacity for disaster if the smallest thing is done wrong, and the invisible presence of defeat that attends every game.

Roger Angell

#6. Here we are, alive, and you and I will have to make it what we can.

Geraldine Brooks

#7. I don't believe in things literally for children. That's a reduction.

Maurice Sendak

#8. There are all of these people that say, my mommy doesn't love me enough, my daddy doesn't hug me enough. There are some people that would want to coddle them somewhere. I want them to shut up and stop whining.

Danny Bonaduce

#9. It's better to not set your expectations high. And that's what happens when you have a long career - not every album is going to be record setting.

Scott Weiland

#10. Public opinion is no more than this: what people think that other people think.

Alfred Austin