Dizzy Dean Quotes

I can see how he (Sandy Koufax) won twenty-five games. What I don't understand is how he lost five.

You can be a top, top player for 10, 20 years, then you become a coach, lose two or three games and you're out.

The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy.

When you win 20 games in a row and then lose four, people ask you, 'What happened?'...That's the beauty of sports.

I played on the 2001 team, the team that won the most games in the history of Major League Baseball and also I played on one of the worst teams of Major League Baseball.

They could never beat me in Springfield. I loved that old ballpark. If I could have pitched there all my career, I'd be a 300-game winner.

I would rather beat the Yankees regularly than pitch a no hit game.

I was in the postseason twice and I'm thankful for that.

The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.

I was playing little league baseball when Bruce Jenner was winning the gold but I don't think I was really paying attention at that time.

I get more upset at losing at other things than chess. I always get upset when I lose at Monopoly.

Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to make those decisions about who plays.

I hit a grand slam off Ron Herbel and when his manager Herman Franks came out to get him, he was bringing Herbel's suitcase.

Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.

Any one game in baseball doesn't tell you that much, just as any one poll doesn't tell you that much.

Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.

You don't see players at United complaining to their manager when they are taken off.

I love the history of the sport and I want to keep keep building my history as a player with more records.

They say baseball's a game of failure. Well, that's only true on the offensive side.

You can be the best player in one game and then the worst player ever in the next.

I'd be lying if I said I didn't expect to have success on the baseball field and the football field.

I realize in every year I don't win a title, I'm closer to retiring.

Someone once described the pitching of a no-hit game as like catching lighting in a bottle.

Baseball is slovenly and excessive in midsummer, with its onrolling daily cascade of line scores and box scores, shifting statistics, highlights and lowlights, dingers and shutouts, streaks and slumps.