Gene Mauch Quotes

You've got to play every game until it's over. Baseball is a funny game, so you never know what's going to happen.

Penalties are part of the game.

I won't be fining players for getting sent off.

When an athlete has relegated the persistent rumors of cheating to the back room of the mind, he hasn't really forgotten them. And when he glances back to where rumors hunker in the darkness, he hopes with a savage heart that somehow, some day, those cheaters will be brought to justice.

Every time I've failed, people had me out for the count, but I always come back.

Winners never quit and quitters never win.

Failure will be sanctioned.

I don't stop when I am tired; I stop when I am done.

I will play until I can't play anymore.

Football is great because you always have another opportunity to change history.

Football is like that: you never know when things will change, so you can never give up.

I realized early on that success was tied to not giving up. Most people in this business gave up and went on to other things. If you simply didn't give up, you would outlast the people who came in on the bus with you.

Perseverance is a great element of success.

We'll not give up even if we're 12 points behind with one game left.

Even when you have three strikes, you're still not out. There is always something else you can do.

The only thing we all have in common is that we play tricks in order to force ourselves to abandon the quest. The counter-measure is to persist in spite of all the barriers and disappointments.

You carry on no matter what are the obstacles. You simply refuse to give up - and, when the going gets tough, you get tougher. And, you win.

Don't foul, don't flinch-hit the line hard.

What you fail to destroy will eventually destroy you.

With hope or without hope we will follow the trail of our enemies. And woe to them, if we prove the swifter!

I think you just have to keep knocking down doors, you have to keep being aggressive, and even if somebody says 'No', then you have to knock on the next door.

My dad was a great competitor in his own way. He would never let us win at anything, and we had to work our tails off to beat him.

One of the most common causes of failure is the habit of quitting when one is overtaken by temporary defeat.

I talked to the team a lot about staying power. You never find out if you have that until you've been beaten down a few times.

What I've learned, above all, is to keep marching forward because the best news is that since chance does play a role, one important factor in success is under our control: the number of at bats, the number of chances taken, the number of opportunities seized.