World Series Quotes

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

Babe Ruth

Motivational Sports, Hero, Athlete

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The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

Tommy Lasorda

Motivational, Sports, Baseball

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You don't just accidentally show up in the World Series.

Derek Jeter

Inspiring, Success, Winning

"Earning a rep". Sports Illustrated, October 25, 2003.

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

Tom Glavine

Team, World, Series

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I do love the feeling of a big win. But you don't have to have a World Series ring to be a winner. A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished. Being able to get the most from their ability. That's what characterizes a winner.

Joe Torre

Winning, Feelings, Trying

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I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

Lou Gehrig

Movie, Baseball, Men

Farewell speech at Yankee Stadium, New York, N.Y., 4 July 1939.

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What women want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What men want: Tickets to the World Series.

Dave Barry

Funny, Respect, Women

Dave Barry (2001). “All the Dave Barry you could ever want: four classic books in one from America's foremost humorist”

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Baseball is caring. Player and fan alike must care, or there is no game. If there's no game, there's no pennant race and no World Series. And for all any of us know there might soon be no nation at all. It is good to care - in any dimension. More Americans put their caring into baseball than into anything else I can think of - and most put at least a little of it there. Baseball can be trusted, as great art can, and bad art can't.

William Saroyan

Baseball, Art, Caring

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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.

Jackie Robinson

World, Emotion, Anthem

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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.

Kirby Puckett

Stars, Heart, Games

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

Yogi Berra

Funny, Baseball, Competition

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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.

Dennis Eckersley

Sports, Winning, Awards

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What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.

Harry Caray

Baseball, Mama, Bears

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The practice of our democracy depends on a sense of, and knowledge of, history in the same way that playing in the World Series requires a bat and a ball.

Lewis H. Lapham

Practice, Democracy, Bats

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I have three beautiful children and a World Series ring. That's all I need.

Mark Teixeira

Beautiful, Children, Three

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Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That’s baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, ‘I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.’

Ernie Harwell

Baseball, Teenage, Men

"Ernie Harwell, in His Own Words" by Tyler Kepner, bats.blogs.nytimes.com. May 4, 2010.

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If you're talented enough and play long enough, and put up numbers, you'll get to the Hall of Fame. That doesn't make you a World Series winner.

Jimmy Rollins

Play, Numbers, Long

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I stand here not because I have fame or money or because I play on TV or hit a World Series home run. That doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because I stand here as a humble person because I know He could have picked someone else. In His Word he says, 'the least of us shall be first.' When I look up, I realize I am blessed and I say thank you Jesus for all you have done for me because without you I would be nothing.

Joe Carter

Running, Jesus, Blessed

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A World Series trophy is a wonderful thing to behold.

Willie Stargell

Sports, World, Trophies

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The guy stroked his goatee. "What do you call twenty guys watching the world series?" "The New York Yankees," Butch replied.

J.R. Ward

New York, Yankees, Guy

J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.452, Penguin

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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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People recognize me wherever I go, where it used to be just New York. I guess people who aren't even baseball fans watch the World Series. I was driving down the freeway in Los Angeles over the winter and a guy pulled up next to me and gave me the finger.

Graig Nettles

Baseball, New York, Winter

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When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.

Don Drysdale

Sports, Screw Ups, World

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The Giants have won. They have won the World Series for the third time in five years. And Madison Bumgarner has firmly etched his name on the all-time World Series record books as one of the greatest World Series pitchers the game has ever seen.

Jon Miller

Book, Games, Names

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

Nick Johnson

Stars, Winning, Games

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