Rogers Hornsby Quotes

One time I was doing a speech to a group of kids, and just before I get there, I see this little kid crying. I found out they just lost a game, and he was the losing pitcher. I went over there, put my arm around him, and said, 'What are you crying for? When major league players lose, they don't cry.'

I certainly was not going to add to his humiliation in the hour of defeat.

I don't take pleasure in anyone's demise, really.

I ought to rejoice in the fact that our principal rival has died, but I don't.

I never slept when I lost. I'd see the sun come up without ever having closed my eyes. I'd see those base hits over and over and they would drive me crazy.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

All the world loves a good loser.

Nobody feels any worse than I do about losing.

We are truly to be pitied.

I do feel sorry for my younger brother, he used to field a lot.

We are deeply sorry for the loss of anything - from your luggage to, of course, a loved pet.

It is my biggest regret that I gave up 10 runs on my last outing as a Ranger.

Sometimes it does upset you when you lose in the finals, or even in a quarterfinal or semifinal, especially when you think, 'Maybe I could have played better,' or even if you gave your 100 percent, and even then, you lose.

He spoke wistfully of a sudden leaving, a breaking of old ties, a flight into a strange world, ending in this dreary valley, and Ettie listened, her dark eyes gleaming with pity and with sympathy - those two qualities which may turn so rapidly and so naturally to love.

What is more harmful than any vice? Practical sympathy and pity for all the failures and all the weak : Christianity.

Andrew hated to see her humiliated and pathetic like this; but he half hated her too for landing herself in it, when any idiot could have seen.

Do not pity the dead, Harry.

I feel pity for him, and that is a poor sign of love.

The more we feel sorry for ourselves, the less sorry others will feel for us. People don't waste their small store of sympathy on those who can provide it so richly for themselves.

A sympathetic look always makes me feel sorry for myself.

I don't really get scared. Want to know what else i don't feel?" PITY

Where do your greatest dangers lie?--In pity.

PITY, n. A failing sense of exemption, inspired by contrast.

The world has no sympathy with any but positive griefs. It will pity you for what you lose; never for what you lack