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“In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the better team lost. I was so disappointed I cried on the plane ride home.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I'd choose Whitey Ford every time.”

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Author:Mickey Mantle

“At the beginning of the World Series of 1947, I experienced a completely new emotion when the National Anthem was played. This time, I thought, it is being played for me, as much as for anyone else.”

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Author:Jackie Robinson

“My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.”

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Author:Billy Corgan

“There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure.”

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Author:Mike Penner

“I returned to the white House after midnight more depressed than ever before. I had long since arranged to attend the World Series in Philadelphia the next day. Although I like baseball, I kept this engagement only because I felt that my presence at a sporting event might be a gesture of reassurance to a country suffering from a severe attack of 'jitters.'”

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“If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner.”

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Author:Lindsey Nelson

“I hope the car they (Sport Magazine who awarded it to the World Series MVP) give him (Brooks Robinson) has an extra large glove box.”

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Author:Sparky Anderson

“The last time the Cubs won the World Series was 1908. The last time they were in one was 1945. Hey, any team can have a bad century.”

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Author:Tom Trebelhorn

“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.”

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Author:Dizzy Dean

“In the World Series, when a pitcher's not doing his job, they put another one in that can.”

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Author:Jimmie Johnson

“Going to Omaha for the College World Series - the people there are tremendous - huge crowds and a lot of excitement. I still remember those days - you make a lot of friends that you never forget when you win a championship like that.”

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Author:Roger Clemens

“I was told I would never make it because I'm too short. Well, I'm still too short, but I've got 10 All-Star games, two World Series championships, and I'm a very happy and contented guy. It doesn't matter what your height is, it's what's in your heart.”

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Author:Kirby Puckett

“You know, a lot of people say they didn't want to die until the Red Sox won the World Series. Well, there could be a lot of busy ambulances tomorrow.”

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Author:Johnny Damon

“I want to win when the whole world is watching, ... I want to win a World Series in an Angels uniform.”

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Author:Vladimir Guerrero

“Well, I know that I'll never forget that, but also I won't forget the hundreds of people who sent me letters, telegrams, and postcards during that World Series. There wasn't a single nasty message. Everybody tried to say something nice.”

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Author:Gil Hodges

“People saw me as being heroic, but I was no more heroic than I was with other injuries I had, like the lacerated kidney I suffered during the 1990 World Series. It's just that people haven't known anyone with a lacerated kidney, but everyone can relate to someone with cancer.”

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Author:Eric Davis

“If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it.”

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Author:Michael Lewis

“Its unbelievable, I cant even describe it. To be a big part of bringing the World Series the first World Series ever to Houston is just tremendous.”

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Author:Lance Berkman

“And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.”

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Author:Dave Winfield

“Although I have to say, it's become a lot harder for me since I won the world series because everyone wants to beat me. For example, bluffing is really tough now, because there's always someone who calls me on the off-chance that they'll then be able to say they read a world champion's bluff.”

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Author:Chris Moneymaker

“I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series.”

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Author:James Belushi

“If the Cubs were to win (The World Series) it would be a coronary event for me.”

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Author:Steve Goodman

“Celebrating creates an atmosphere of recognition and positive energy. Imagine a team winning the World Series without champagne spraying everywhere. And yet companies win all the time and let it go without so much as a high five. Work is too much a part of life not to recognize moments of achievement. Make a big deal out of them. If you don't, no one will.”

“The greatest single moment Ive ever known in Detroit was Jim Northrups triple in the seventh game of the World Series in St. Louis. It was a stunning moment because not only were the Tigers winning a world championship that meant so much to an entire city, they were beating the best pitcher I ever saw-Bob Gibson.”

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Author:Ernie Harwell

“They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real.”

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Author:Sparky Anderson

“Maybe these kids are just too young and too dumb to know about the first 13. Maybe they can't comprehend that the Braves have only won one World Series in those 13 years.”

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Author:Tim Hudson

“There's nothing better than a team that comes out of nowhere and finds themselves in the World Series.”

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Author:Tom Glavine

“But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate.”

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Author:Dennis Eckersley

“I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.”

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Author:Robin Yount

“You play to win, to get that World Series ring, All-Star games and whatever comes with it.”

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Author:Nick Johnson

“Aw, everybody knows that game, the day I hit the homer off ole Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field, the day October first, the third game of that thirty-two World Series. But right now I want to settle all arguments. I didn't exactly point to any spot, like the flagpole. Anyway, I didn't mean to, I just sorta waved at the whole fence, but that was foolish enough. All I wanted to do was give that thing a ride... outta the park... anywhere.”

“Watching other teams in the World Series is like watching somebody else eat a Hot Fudge Sundae.”

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Author:Joe Torre

“They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games. My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.”

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Author:Johnny Bench

“I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.”

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Author:Don Baylor

“Finishing overall champion at the World Series in both the individual and synchro events has given me great confidence and I'm pleased I've been diving with consistency.”

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Author:Tom Daley

“When I was a teenager and my brother Frank was in the World Series in '57 and '58 against the Yankees, Braves winning in '57 and the Yankees in '58, little did I know the next time these two teams would meet in the World Series, I would be managing the Yankees.”

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Author:Joe Torre

“It's never happened in the World Series competition, and it still hasn't.”

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Author:Yogi Berra

“There is nothing better than to make it to the College World Series. All of the extra reps in the weight room, all of the early morning practices, and all the hard work spent the entire year makes it worth it.”

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Author:Jennie Finch

“The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression.”

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Author:Julianna Baggott

“That's what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform - is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in '86.”

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Author:Gary Carter

“The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.”

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Author:Adam Gopnik

“Before seeing 'The Pride of the Yankees,' you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the ones who win the World Series each year. After seeing it you will find that the reference is indirect.”

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Book:Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Faber: A Special Publication of The Library of America

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