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“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.”

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Author:Warren Spahn

“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.”

“My stuff was all right, but it's not about pitching good. It's about winning. I pitched just good enough to lose.”

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Author:Greg Maddux

“We [ me and brother] wanted to win at things like basketball games or baseball games, but off the field we never felt like we had to compete with each other.”

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Author:Bengie Molina

“I have always had my doubts about any form of divine intervention in sports contests. The power of prayer may be remarkable in many other arenas, but why should God want my team to win instead of the other side? Isn't it insulting to request God to even take an interest in baseball?”

Source: Roger Ebert's video companion: 1996 edition

“The NFL has a hard cap, but if you ask 20 NFL experts who is going to win the Super Bowl this year, you might get 20 different answers. If you then asked 20 baseball experts who is going to represent the American League in the World Series, at least 90 percent of them would say the Yankees and the rest would say Seattle.”

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Author:Bob DuPuy

“You got to get twenty-seven outs to win.”

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Author:Casey Stengel

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

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Author:Casey Stengel

“In 1961 somebody could've hit a home run to win the game and the next day the headline was about the M&M boys not hitting a home run. But everyone was real good about it. Instead of getting mad they joked about it.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“Hey Mantle, you win. You're the worst.”

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Book:Whitey and Mickey: A Joint Autobiography of the Yankee Years

Source: Whitey and Mickey: A Joint Autobiography of the Yankee Years

“I'm just worried about winning baseball. I'm only worried about what I can do to help the team win. It's about improving in every facet of the game. I think that's everyone's goals. Whatever we can do to help the team win is what we'll do. I think Andy has done a great job of coming in and helping our offense. AD is getting those pitchers ready. Coach Mainieri is going to coach up some wins this year. We are very excited and working on every facet of the game.”

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Author:Alex Bregman

“I don't think I've changed very much. I think I'm the same kid that I was when I got here. When I came here all I wanted to do was win games. I wanted to play baseball for LSU and be the ultimate team player. That's all I want to do. If we don't end up being the last team to win the game at the end of the year then I won't be happy. That's all I'm worried about this year.”

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Author:Alex Bregman

“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.”

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Author:Rogers Hornsby

“The Padres, after winning the first game of the doubleheader, are ahead here in the top of the fifth and hoping for a split.”

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Author:Jerry Coleman

“The last time Pena faced the Padres, the Dodgers scratched for a run to tie the game and then went on to win 4-0.”

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Author:Jerry Coleman

“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.”

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Author:Dan O'Brien