Hal Newhouser Quotes

If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up.

One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

What's so special about this team is that we all have the same mentality, this sort of, 'We've been knocked down, let's get back up' mentality.

Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.

We all pulled together at the right time, unfortunately, we were down 3-0 to the Yankees when we decided to do it, but we did it. And we shocked the world.

There is nothing as sweet as a comeback, when you are down and out, about to lose, and out of time.

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

I have learned it's not how you fall but how you get up that truly matters.

You can't let injuries dictate the outcome of a football game. You have to persevere and keep fighting. That is how we are. If there is a blade of grass to defend or take, we do it.

Going through SEAL training taught me that it's OK to fall down three times, as long as you get up four. This is a good philosophy for most things in life.

It is important when you are losing to come back and not get beat.

I don't care about losing. How many times did Michael Jordan lose before he won his first championship? It wasn't about the number of losses with Sugar Ray Leonard or Tommy Hearns.

I lost as amateur, I lost a bunch of times as a wrestler, and you always come back.

Everyone is going to make bogeys and doubles and get bad breaks in bunkers. It's just kind of licking your wounds and taking what it gives you and move on.

When they knock you down, you not only have to get up, but you have to make it clear that you won't be knocked down a second time.

It's been a tough season for all of us, but all we can do is keep fighting and showing character to the end of the season

The bottom line is, what defines you isn't how many times you crash, but the number of times you get back on the bike. As long as it's one more. you're all good.

It doesn't matter if we are down 3-0. We just have got to keep the faith like that one piece you were saying in "Keep on Going," because the game is not over till the last out.

As an athlete, that's something I always take with me. You fall every day, whether it's in a job, or you miss something else, but you learn how to do it better next time. You learn it in sports. That's a life lesson.

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.

Some games don't go the way you want them to go, but you still have to find a way to win.

You've got keep your head up, keep fighting, and do the best you can.

You've got to think life can give you some bad knocks; no matter how hard you're knocked, you've got to get up.

We can't get down on one loss or one bad defensive play. We gotta play through it.

It doesn't really matter who you're playing. You just have to keep going at them.