Pat Williams Quotes

Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

I never gave up as a player, and I won't give up as someone who wants to go to the Hall of Fame, because it's the ultimate goal for a baseball player or a football player or a basketball player.

In the movies, I never lost a fight. In baseball, I hardly ever won one.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose.

I guess that's what Little League is all about -- trying.

When you see grown men near to tears because they've missed hitting a little white ball into a hole from three feet, it makes you laugh.

You can't win unless you learn how to lose.

Sport and life is about losing. It's about understanding how to lose.

During my freshman year at Cornell, I joined my dorm's intramural football team. At the first practice, upper classmen pointed out I was tall, so I should try playing QB. Well half an hour later, it was abundantly clear that I should not be the QB.

The biggest thrill a ballplayer can have is when your son takes after you. That happened when my Bobby was in his championship Little League game. He really showed me something. Struck out three times. Made an error that lost the game. Parents were throwing things at our car and swearing at us as we drove off. Gosh, I was proud.

I was the worst hitter ever. I never even broke a bat until last year when I was backing out of the garage.

For me, baseball is about, again, the team winning.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

I eventually became proud of my strikeouts, because each one represented another learning experience.

I was absolutely a non-starter at games. My report for rugby said, 'Nigel's chief contribution is his presence on the field.' I used to pray for rain and sometimes it did rain - and we played anyway.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

Even Napoleon had his Watergate.

We're going to hang our heads high.

I never want to lose. I hate to lose... But Babe Ruth struck out 1,300 times. You can't hit the home run every time you come up to bat.

You can't succeed if you don't know what losing is.

Yankee Stadium is a natural venue for another lesson: You won't succeed all the time. Even Ruth, Gehrig, and DiMaggio failed most of time when they stepped to the plate. Finding the right path in life, more often than not, involves some missteps.

If you lose a title, perhaps it's because your rivals are better than you are. But to be demoted from the top flight is really heartbreaking.

I have a good understanding that baseball is not the most important thing in the world, but at the same time you want to get a hit.

I always knew I could make it in baseball.