Top 47 Quotes About Winning Baseball
#1. The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
Earl Weaver
#2. A well-run restaurant is like a winning baseball team. It makes the most of every crew member's talent and takes advantage of every split-second opportunity to speed up service.
David Ogilvy
#3. Defense usually doesn't make many headlines, but it goes a long way towards winning baseball games. There are a number of ways to make an impact during the course of a game, and playing solid, sound defense is one of them.
Derek Jeter
#4. If you had a pill that would guarantee a pitcher 20 wins, but might take five years off his life, he'd take it.
Jim Bouton
#5. (Dwight Gooden) his fastball crackling , his curveball dropping as suddenly as a duck shot in the air, has begun his charge for a third straight award-winning season.
Ira Berkow
#6. Baseball is like everything else. You got to study every angle to win.
Judy Johnson
#7. The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy.
Warren Spahn
#8. You saw him standing out there, and you knew you had a pretty damn good chance to win the baseball game.
Red Ruffing
#9. For many in baseball September is a month of stark contrast with April, when everyone had dared to hope. If baseball is a lot like life, as pundits declare, it is because life is more about losing than winning.
John Thorn
#11. I've always played hard. If that's rough and tough, I can't help it. I don't believe there's any such thing as a good loser. I wouldn't sit down and play a game of cards with you right now withing wanting to win. If I hadn't felt that way I wouldn't have got very far in baseball.
Rogers Hornsby
#12. My instinct is a winning coach, and when it said "Batter up,"I didn't argue that I wasn't ready for the game. I gripped the bat in both hands, assumed the stance, and said a prayer to Mickey Mantle.
Dean Koontz
#13. If you can't enjoy the game unless you are pretty sure your team is going to win, baseball is not the game for you. Remember, the best team in baseball in any year is going to be beaten about 60 times.
Daniel Okrent
#14. I am old enough to remember every Red Sox season since 1975. Baseball is long. Baseball takes forever. It's day in, day out, for six solid months - seven if you're lucky. Winning is always fun.
Bill Simmons
#15. 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
#16. No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.
Tommy Lasorda
#17. Things happen in baseball, even if, in theory, it's something you don't do. Stats are a tool, but it doesn't mean that's how a game is being played at that moment. There's more than one way to win a game, or have a winning team.
Jon Miller
#18. I don't know how anyone can put on a uniform and not care about winning.
Dave LaPoint
#20. Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.
Hillary Clinton
#21. Baseball is a pretty sight and a nice experience, win or lose, particularly if it is watched in a nice park.
Daniel Okrent
#22. Austin, Texas, and Columbus, Ohio, are the two toughest communities in which you have to put together a winning football team. They are both big metropolitan areas without professional football and major league baseball to sidetrack them.
Brent Musburger
#23. I came of baseball age (isn't it always around first grade?) in the last sputtering years of the A's Philadelphia tenancy. I probably plighted my fated troth in 1949, when the A's fluked into a winning season and introduced a pintsize southpaw named Bobby Shantz.
Richard Corliss
#24. For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.
Eddie Murray
#25. The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
Tommy Lasorda
#26. My stuff was all right, but it's not about pitching good. It's about winning. I pitched just good enough to lose.
Greg Maddux
#28. As the late baseball manager Sparky Anderson put it: Losing hurts twice as bad as winning feels good.
L. Jon Wertheim
#29. We win if the world is convinced of two things, that you are a fine gentleman, and a great baseball player.
Branch Rickey
#30. I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold, but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time. It wasn't until 1980 - I think I was 12 years old - that I thought, 'Wow that's what I want to do. I want to be on the Olympic team.'
Dan O'Brien
#31. We know next year was suppose to be our year, but we didn't feel like waiting when we think we can win now.
Paul Konerko
#32. Athletes are born winners, there not born loosers, and the sooner you understand this, the faster you can take on a winning attitude and become sucessful in life.
Charles R. Sledge Jr.
#33. You're not going to win by automatically going out there. It's hard to know what people really expect of you, and I've never tried to live up to expectations anyway. That's no way to play baseball.
Greg Maddux
#34. The Indians franchise is more than a century old. It's been called the Blues, the Bronchos, and the Naps. It's also been called a lot worse during hard times when the team wasn't winning.
Tucker Elliot
#35. That's one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent of the time at the plate is a potential member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and many World Championship teams lose more than 70 games during their title-winning seasons.
Don Yaeger
#36. You've got to have camaraderie or togetherness on a baseball team if you want to win.
Andy Pettitte
#37. Boys, baseball is a game where you gotta have fun. You do that by winning.
Dave Bristol
#38. World Series MVP is a unique individual honor because with one exception - Bobby Richardson won 1960 World Series MVP honors for the Yankees, but the Pittsburgh Pirates won the Series that year - by virtue of winning the award you guarantee your teammates have won a ring.
Tucker Elliot
#39. The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.
Chuck Tanner
#40. Life is like the baseball season, where even the best team loses at least a third of its games, and even the worst team has its days of brilliance. The goal is not to win every game but to win more than you lose, and if you do that often enough, in the end you may find you have won it all.
Harold S. Kushner
#41. If you don't play to win, why keep score?
Vern Law
#42. Hornergy' is Zen's term for the indomitable athletic edge powered by sexual restraint. The basketball, baseball and football teams haven't had a winning season in years. The table-tennis team, however, is undefeated.
Megan McCafferty
#43. The Padres, after winning the first game of the doubleheader, are ahead here in the top of the fifth and hoping for a split.
Jerry Coleman
#44. Winning isn't as important as doing well individually. You can't take teamwork up to the front office to negotiate.
Ken Landreaux
#45. Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.
Gene Autry
#46. The career batting average (.254) during parts of five Major League seasons for Francisco Cabrera - which proves that it takes only one big hit, on the right stage, to become a legend. Cabrera is still honored in Atlanta, and rightfully so, for winning the 1992 NLCS vs. Pittsburgh.
Tucker Elliot
#47. Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.
Chili Davis
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