Roger Maris Quotes

Individual statistics, plate time and everything tend to come, but the most enjoyment I get out of baseball is actually winning.

It's important to score some goals and make the decisive pass for my club.

It's all stealing bases and winning games. If not, go home.

There's a lot of variables you can't control in trying to win a game, but at the end of the day it does mean something to win a game in the big leagues and be on the mound.

It's always fun to compete against the best.

I just want to pitch well enough for us to win. In my mind, that's what it's all about.

Once you get on the playing field it's not about whether you're liked or not liked. All that matters is to play at a high level and do whatever it takes to help your team win. That's what it's about.

If you're in the best team in the world, you or your teammate have to win.

I enjoy watching competitive people. You watch 'em come and you watch 'em go, and how they try to be the best. How they handle when they're not. How they handle when they are. How they get along together on the court.

Just think about the game. Think about playing great, having a great time. Helping my team win.

When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.

Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player? The nerves and everything that goes with it? Seeing what he's learned and how he's done it? That's the second best thing to playing. I think.

I want to score in every game and win things. That's the most important thing.

The first initial feeling, at least for me, was to go out and play well and hopefully win and have the Asian community be even more proud.

But, you know, I just want to play well and have fun playing well.

I look forward to competing.

I grew up in athletics, where people keep score.

As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.

There is no trophy for the team that sails the most.

Football players win football games.

I loved to make a great defensive play, I'd rather do that than hit a home run.

It doesn't matter how pretty you look it's how many runs you get.

Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to be better than someone else. This is the nature of man and the name of the game.

If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.

You get into sports with the idea that you want to win. If you aren't trying to win, what's the point in being involved?