Games Quotes - Page 8

• Baseball's best teams lose about sixty-five times a season. It is not a game you can play with your teeth clenched.

  George Will

  Baseball, Team, Play

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• I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Twenties, Lost

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• 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

  Baseball, Believe, Winning

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• If this keeps up (four game winning streak) I'm about to manage until I'm a hundred.

  Casey Stengel

  Winning, Four, Hundred

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• The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.

  Vin Scully

  Team, Winning, Two

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• The no-hitter was the highlight of my career. The specialness of it, I didn't know how lasting it would be when it happened. Everywhere I go, people talk about that game, how exciting it was. That makes me very proud. I'm awfully happy that a ball didn't bloop in somewhere.

  Jim Abbott

  Careers, People, Would Be

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• Do you think it's easy to just walk up to Joe DiMaggio and start up a
  conversation? I've been around him at old-timers' games, and believe me, he's
  someone special. It's not easy to walk over and say, 'How ya doin', Joe, whaddya
  say?' You really feel as though this is the one old-timer you have to call
  Mister.

  Tom Seaver

  Believe, Thinking, Special

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• It's (baseball) on the radio and in the newspapers every day, the only game you can follow on that basis. From whatever arm's length you choose, it's always there.

  Tom Seaver

  Baseball, Radio, Arms

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• Lou Brock, along with Maury Wills, are probably the two players most responsible for the biggest change in the game over the last fifteen years - the stolen base.

  Tom Seaver

  Player, Years, Two

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• Everybody who plays top-level sport, whether it's golf or football, or whatever, needs to get into 'The Zone'... For me personally, on the morning of a round, preparation is always about getting into the zone. The less I communicate with other people, the better. I'm trying to rehearse in my mind what I am working on in my game: going through my swing keys, going through my putting keys. When I get to the course I get the pin positions for the day and I'll analyze those. I'll make a strategy for the golf course and look how I'm going to play it

  Paul McGinley

  Sports, Football, Morning

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• I imagine myself as the broadcaster for a Cubs-White Sox World Series, a Series that would last seven games, with the final game going extra innings before being suspended because of darkness at Wrigley Field.

  Jack Brickhouse

  White, Darkness, Finals

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• Everything you could want - action, suspense, character and setting, all floating on the easy lyricism of a fine writer at the top of his game.

  Lee Child

  Character, Floating, Suspense

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• Johnny Bench
  befriended me my first year in the big leagues. He took me under his wing during my first All-Star Game and we've been friends ever since. He's one guy I've tried to emulate and I'll always compare myself to Johnny (Bench).

  Gary Carter

  Stars, Wings, Years

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• Nothing will ever replace the feeling I got when Jesse Orosco
  struck out Marty Barrett
  to end the game (Game 7 of the 1986 World Series) and I got the opportunity to run out into his arms. To me, that was the greatest accomplishment. Without a doubt, that was my biggest thrill.

  Gary Carter

  Running, Opportunity, Accomplishment

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• (Mike) Schmitty provided what the relief pitchers need most, home runs and great defense. He's the best third baseman that I ever played with, and maybe of all-time. Obvious Hall of Famer, even then. He retired while on top of his game. I thought for sure he was going to hit 600 home runs.

  Steve Carlton

  Running, Home, Relief

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• You are anxious before every game because you had to win it. If you didn't you went down the ladder. I felt proud of the way we beat some teams in tough games.

  Sourav Ganguly

  Team, Winning, Ladders

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• The fools standpoint is that all social institutions are games. He sees the whole world as game playing. That's why, when people take their games seriously and take on stern and pious expressions, the fool gets the giggles because he knows that it is all a game.

  Alan Watts

  Expression, People, World

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• (Don) Sutton
  lost thirteen games in a row without winning a ballgame.

  Ralph Kiner

  Winning, Lost, Thirteen

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• To be the first player to do it three consecutive years (fifty or more home runs), you go back through the thousands of power hitters who played this game and nobody has ever done it, and I can sit here and say I'm the first. I'm pretty proud of that.

  Mark McGwire

  Running, Home, Player

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• What he (Sammy Sosa) and I have been doing is fantastic. What we've done nobody in the game has done for thirty-seven years. I'm pretty happy with the way things have been going.

  Mark McGwire

  Years, Done, Way

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• My whole life has been a bit like a Nintendo game.

  Robin Gibb

  Nintendo, Whole Life, Has Beens

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• He's (his father Jorge Posada IV) happy for me. He remembers all of my big games. When I hit
  my first home run in the World Series, he was here, and he cried. It's like I'm
  living his dream.

  Jorge Posada

  Dream, Running, Father

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• My favorite part (of the game) is knowing that they're comfortable, knowing that, no matter
  what, they can count on me. What I really enjoy most about catching is the
  relationship with a pitcher. The most important thing is they can relax when I'm
  back there and know that I did my job, I did some homework on hitters.

  Jorge Posada

  Jobs, Knowing, Relax

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• You have to understand what they (pitchers) do. That's my job. You have to find a way to get them
  through the game if they're not feeling good. When everything is going good and
  they're feeling one-hundred percent, it's my job to keep them that way. And you know what? If I see something, I'm going to let them know.

  Jorge Posada

  Jobs, Feel Good, Feelings

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• My dad was the force behind me early on. He was just infatuated with baseball. He was the one that basically taught me how to play the game. He gave a lot of his time working out with me, practicing and taking me to a lot of different games. It was hard work between both of us.

  Rafael Palmeiro

  Baseball, Dad, Hard Work

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