Don Drysdale Quotes

I never slept when I lost. I'd see the sun come up without ever having closed my eyes. I'd see those base hits over and over and they would drive me crazy.

I hate striking out, doesn't matter what time of the game. I just don't like striking out.

If I miss a pass at practice, I'm ticked off.

It is my biggest regret that I gave up 10 runs on my last outing as a Ranger.

Baseball is a game of failure. There are plenty of opportunities to be down, or to feel sorry for yourself, or to be upset at somebody or upset at yourself.

I'd like to say this was our worst game. Unfortunately, I can't.

At Liverpool, I had almost everything but titles. I felt like a king, but the team was falling apart.

Baseball was a dream I gathered more splinters than hits.

It is always nice to get to finals, but never nice to lose in them.

Pitching is a priority.

I wanted to play baseball!

The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.

Strikeouts are part of my game.

There are some great pitchers in this league. You're going to get fooled sometimes. They're going to get you.

When I finally got there, to where I thought was the top, I wasn't doing what I was doing in the beginning. I was not happy.

It's no fun when you lose.

Being able to taste failure, it makes you kind of want to throw up. It makes you just hate the game.

Sometimes it does upset you when you lose in the finals, or even in a quarterfinal or semifinal, especially when you think, 'Maybe I could have played better,' or even if you gave your 100 percent, and even then, you lose.

Game after game, year after year, you never stop thinking about the balls you get your hands on and don't catch.

I hate when pitchers get me out multiple times. It's probably an ego thing, but I don't like that.

If I could straighten it out (his golf swing), I'd be pitching at Dodger Stadium tonight.

Chess is one long regret.

Boy, do I hate to lose.

He shrugged his shoulders to shift the pain of failure---the pain that is so much greater than the pleasure of success.

In baseball, even the best hitters fail seven of ten times, and of those seven failures there are different reasons why. Some are personal failures, others are losses to the pitcher. You just get beat. In those personal failures, I felt I could have done better.