Quotes About Pennant

#1. The .350 hitter expects, and also deserves, a big payoff for his performance - even if he plays for a cellar-dwelling team. And a .150 hitter should get no reward - even if he plays for a pennant winner.

Warren Buffett

#2. Fans all have their memories of pennant races, good memories, sick memories.

George Vecsey

#3. I don't know. But it's my option. I don't want to leave Chicago. I want to be successful here. I want to help this team, like I always say, be in the pennant race ... I don't want to leave, and I don't think I will leave.

Carlos Zambrano

#4. We won (the pennant) because we've got a superior ball club. Not many stars perhaps, but the kind of team that always plays well together.

Nellie Fox

#5. The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.

Pete Rose

#6. Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails.

Austin O'Malley

#7. Pennant races drain the energy from the best of them. Old-fashioned baseball races are to me the most grueling daily test in any sport. Gotta keep coming out, every day, in the face of looming disaster.

George Vecsey

#8. When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.

Sammy Sosa

#9. People don't know this, but I helped the Cardinals win the pennant. I came down with hepatitis. The trainer injected me with it!

Bob Uecker

#10. We should have won the pennant that year. It was the best club I was ever on.

Jimmy Piersall

#11. The unit had organized itself like a small-market baseball team enjoying an unlikely pennant run: talented journeymen working together, no stars, no egos, mutually supportive, and above all ruthlessly and relentlessly effective.

Lee Child

#12. If Satch (Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series time.

Dizzy Dean

#13. Lo, the unbounded sea, On its breast a ship starting, spreading all sails, carrying even her moonsails. The pennant is flying aloft as she speeds she speeds so stately - below emulous waves press forward, They surround the ship with shining curving motions and foam. I

Walt Whitman

#14. I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award.

Laraine Day

#15. We want to add an American League pennant ... and to bring the World Series to Arlington.

Tom Hicks

#16. My idea of heaven is a pennant winner.

Tom Yawkey

#17. Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.

Casey Stengel

#18. Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop.

Leo Durocher

#19. People find hope, comfort, or confidence in making the sign of the cross or not walking under a ladder, just as you find hope and confidence in offering a pennant to the witch. Magic exists in the minds of those who believe in it, not in its actual influence on reality.

Thomas Olde Heuvelt

#20. I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.

Chuck Tanner

#21. You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees.

Bill Lee

#22. Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

Sparky Anderson

#23. But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant
Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan

Steve Goodman

#24. When I wasn't lying awake thinking and planning and fighting over that furious pennant race, I was dreaming restless dreams about it.

Smoky Joe Wood

#25. If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.

Casey Stengel

#26. No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness.

John McGraw

#27. I'm asking about the kid," Root said. "What does she get out of it?"
"My fist in her ear if she asks as many questions as you do," Pennant said. "You worry too much. Well, what do you say, Sultan?

Walter Kaylin

#28. There will be a time when everyone on the team is going to contribute to winning a pennant.

Joe Torre

#29. The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three days.

Whitey Herzog

#30. It was 843 B.C.. The year the patriarchs won the pennant.

Tom Robbins

#31. Don't believe those tales you hear about my being all-in. Wait until you see me in action for your team and then form your opinion of my worth to your team. I assure you that I am delighted to be a Pirate and that I will do my best to bring another pennant to the Smoky City.

Vic Willis

#32. Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.

Dusty Baker

#33. I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant.

Casey Stengel

#34. If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.

Marilyn Monroe

#35. I don't care what the situation was, how high the stakes were - the bases could be loaded and the pennant riding on every pitch, it never bothered Whitey. He pitched his game. Cool. Craft. Nerves of steel.

Mickey Mantle

#36. The moment the game (AL Pennant versus the Twins) was over I sprinted for the dugout. The fans were pouring onto the field. If they'd caught me they'd have torn my uniform into shreds for souvenirs.

Carl Yastrzemski

#37. Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.

Rob Sheffield

#38. No. 1, these guys out here on this field. They keep my energy level up. They try hard, they don't complain about things - and I'd just like to be with them when things are good, and hopefully we can win a pennant together.

Frank Robinson

#39. It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder to lose one.

Chuck Tanner

#40. And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.

Carl Yastrzemski

#41. I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?

Sparky Anderson

#42. The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border.

Dave Winfield

#43. Anyone can create the future but only a wise man can create the past

Vladimir Nabokov