Warren Spahn Quotes

The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.

Most of the managers are lifetime .220 hitters. For years pitchers have been getting these managers out 75% of the time and that's why they don't like us.

Baseball has always been filled with negative statistics.

If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose.

I'm just trying to win games. If I keep doing that, it's all that matters.

Strikers never lose games... we have to be honest and say that.

Statistics are one thing. But if you're not putting up the numbers as far as winning, they're not going to consider you for things like the MVP.

Whenever we're all getting ready for a playoff game, you know how serious those games are, and you try to motivate your guys. There's a lot of emotion that goes into those games, and when I play, it's all about winning, and it's all about doing whatever it takes to fire guys up and to get that emotion running.

If I'm playing well, and we're winning games, that's what I want.

Rick Miller hit only one home run last year, and that's like hitting none.

The Cards had one pitcher who won fourteen straight games in a period of twenty-four days. Then when he lost his fifteenth game 1-0, his manager fined him fifty bucks.

Whether I hit .260 or .320, the bottom line here is to win.

Stats are for losers. I like winning games.

Parker's grand slam is the same as going 4 for 4, even though he went 1 for 4.

You don't go into the game to compete. You go into each game to win.

We win our games in practice. We learn and follow the fundamentals of our game better than anyone in the league. All of our games are won in practice.

The game of baseball is a game of failure because it's so difficult to play. A 300 hitter, a superstar fails seven out of ten times at the plate. So what does that tell you about the game and its difficulty?

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

(Baseball) is a game with a lot of waiting in it; it is a game with increasingly heightened anticipation of increasingly limited action

You spend more of the game preparing to win in the final seconds. And that is what separates winners from losers.

Grantland Rice, the great sportswriter once said, 'It's not whether you win or lose, it's how you play the game.' Well Grantland Rice can go to hell as far as I'm concerned.

The turning point in my career came with the realization that Black should play to win instead of just steering for equality.

I think baseball has moved on in many ways and the focus on the competitions on the field is really what the game is all about. It seems to be healthy. It seems more people are watching it.

The greatest single moment Ive ever known in Detroit was Jim Northrups triple in the seventh game of the World Series in St. Louis. It was a stunning moment because not only were the Tigers winning a world championship that meant so much to an entire city, they were beating the best pitcher I ever saw-Bob Gibson.

The most important thing regardless of my stats or anybody else's stats is the win-loss record. In the locker room people are always telling me, you're doing this and that. I don't really pay that much attention so long as we have a 'W' in that column; that's the kind of thing that makes me really happy. It blows all stats out of the water.