Johnny Damon Quotes

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

Don't write us off. Nobody thought we'd win the World Series in 2005, but we did. There are years when we think we're great, and we're bad. I mean, the funny thing about this game is that you can't figure it out.

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

In the time of darkest defeat, victory may be nearest.

I remember one game when I pitched in Yankee Stadium and gave up five runs in the first inning. It would have been easy to quit, but I shut 'em out the rest of the way, and we came back and won the game.

You can be six behind on the back nine and still win the tournament.

It was a crazy series, 1960. The Yankees were predicted to beat us four straight. And on paper, we couldn't match them because they had better players. But we also had twenty-five guys that wanted to win, and we did everything we could to win.

It is a lot harder when you are 4-1 down than when you are 4-1 up.

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.

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.

France has lost the battle but she has not lost the war.

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

Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.

The struggle goes on. The victory is in the struggle, for me. And I accepted that a long time ago.

Pitchers did me a favor when they knocked me down. It made me more determined. I wouldn't let that pitcher get me out. They say you can't hit if you're on your back, but I didn't hit on my back. I got up.

You can't be afraid to make errors! You can't be afraid to be naked before the crowd, because no one can ever master the game of baseball, or conquer it. You can only challenge it.

Yes, hard is good. When I was in high school, I spent a lot of time on my knees playing with balls. I guess it was only natural that I became a catcher.

The home run took a while to sink in because all I could think of was, 'We beat the Yankees! We beat the Yankees.'

Win one for the Gipper.

My father helped me become a ballplayer and take the good with the bad.

Some defeats are only installments to victory.

I've been through my fair share of highs and lows. Yes, I've been written off, and it amazes me, and it amuses me, also, when I'm written off by the press cause then I tell them that's just the lull before the storm. And every time I've been down, I've been down, never out. So it just makes me work a lot harder.

Every strike brings me closer to the next home run.

For almost 20 years, I've reported on some amazing feats of athleticism for ESPN. But the one thing that stood out, game after game, is that it takes a team to win. When I got cancer, that lesson got personal. And Team Livestrong became my team.

Baseball is a lot like life. It's a day-to-day existence, full of ups and downs. You make the most of your opportunities in baseball as you do in life.