World Series Quotes - Page 3

• I don't just want to play in the playoffs. I want to win the World Series.

  Robinson Cano

  Winning, Play, World

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• I'm in my truck talking to Jesus. And you can see a World Series ring on my right pinkie finger. But when I take my sunglasses off a second later, it's gone. It's the whole divine intervention thing. You know Jesus had something to do with them winning.

  Denis Leary

  Jesus, Winning, Talking

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• My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Children, Dad, Games

  Interview with Rob Darnell, robdarnell.com. August 21, 2015.

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• Night baseball isn't an aberration. What's an aberration is a team that hasn't won a World Series since 1908. They tend to think of themselves as a little Williamsburg, a cute little replica of a major league franchise. Give me the Oakland A's, thank you very much. People who do it right.

  George Will

  Cute, Baseball, Team

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• My coaching staff gets to go to the World Series. From a financial perspective that's great for coaches because baseball coaches in the Major League level don't really make that much money. People don't realize that.

  Joe Maddon

  Baseball, Perspective, People

  Source: m.cubs.mlb.com

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• I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen.

  Bobby Bonilla

  Sports, Opportunity, World

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• Everyone asks how I felt before the perfect game. You never feel bad when you're in the World Series. You've got all winter to rest.

  Don Larsen

  Winter, Games, Yankees

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• It's an honor to be playing with these four players and to be a part of their fifth World Series title and my first.

  Mark Teixeira

  Player, Yankees, Honor

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• People don't own teams to lose money. If you ask any owner whether they would rather make $20 million and come in last place or lose $20 million and win a World Series, there's only one guy who honestly would take that championship: George Steinbrenner. Nobody else.

  Bronson Arroyo

  Team, Winning, People

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• 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.

  Bob DuPuy

  Baseball, Winning, Years

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• I was born in '58, so the riot in Detroit in 1967 was a memorable introduction to the issue of race and how race made a difference in American society. And then the next year, of course, Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. And the Detroit Tigers winning the World Series. All of that made a huge impression on my growing mind.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Kings, Memorable, Winning

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• [The World Series] introduced me for the first time to a team with a lot of black players. Detroit had about three of them: I think it was Willie Horton, Gates Brown, and Earl Wilson - might have been one or two more in '68.

  Michael Eric Dyson

  Team, Player, Thinking

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• I want to win a World Series. I couldn't care less about MVP.

  David Wright

  Winning, Mvp, World

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• The World Series is something that rarely gets to a number of venues in professional baseball. And that's one problem because we want the fan base of particular cities to participate in the World Series, even though there may be a lull in the particular performance of the regional team.

  Scott Boras

  Baseball, Team, Cities

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• He said I couldn't do (off the field) what I did when I was 23 or 24, and I paid attention to him. Damn it, I got a trainer and went to spring training in the best shape of my career and in 1985 had the best season I ever had and we won the World Series. Before that, I didn't know how long I was going to play. That talk with Mr. Fogelman was the most inspiring talk I ever had with anyone.

  George Brett

  Spring, Play, Careers

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• How can I play baseball if I'm stupid? If I was stupid I wouldn't have pitched in the World Series. I'd be playing ball in Mexico or Yugoslavia or on Pluto.

  Joaquin Andujar

  Baseball, Stupid, Yugoslavia

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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, Games

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• He's (George Steinbrenner) the one who gave me a chance to get to the World Series. This is where I wanted to be all along. We had a couple of nice offers from other teams, but I tied my agents' hands. I told them I wanted to be a Yankee.

  Roger Clemens

  Couple, Nice, Team

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• I threw so hard (after striking out Art Fletcher & Doc Crandall in the 9th inning of Game 1 of the 1912 World Series) I thought my arm would fly right off my body.

  Smoky Joe Wood

  Art, Games, World

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• It would be a nice way to finish my career by remembering that I batted cleanup in the game in which my team won the World Series. But I now am convinced that I can still help, and if the right situation presented itself, I would have to think seriously about it.

  Darren Daulton

  Team, Nice, Thinking

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• Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series).

  Roberto Clemente

  Baseball, Doe, World

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• With the Cubs, they've gone so long without a World Series championship, they wanted to win every day. I want that too, but I didn't feel comfortable.

  Hee-seop Choi

  Winning, Long, Gone

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• I don't want to be one of those great players who never made it to the (World) Series.

  Rickey Henderson

  Player, World, Want

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• I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series.

  Jim Evans

  Games, Energy, High Standards

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• My earliest childhood memory is of my father going crazy when the Giants won the World Series in 1954. He started whoopin' and hollerin' and jumpin' up and down all around the living room. I started crying because he scared me to death.

  Henry Louis Gates

  Memories, Father, Crazy

  Source: pittsburghurbanmedia.com

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