Duke Snider Quotes


You don't have to win to be a winner. If you give 100 percent, getting yourself mentally and physically prepared to play the game, if you look in the mirror and can say you give it everything to win, that's it. You're not going to win every time.


Citations

Snider, Duke, and Bill Gilbert. The Duke of Flatbush. Kensington Publishing Corp., 1988, p. 275.

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Duke Snider
Duke Snider
  • Born: September 19, 1926
  • Died: February 27, 2011
  • Nationality: American
  • Profession: Athlete

Edwin Donald "Duke" Snider, nicknamed "The Silver Fox" and "The Duke of Flatbush", was an American professional baseball player. Primarily a center fielder, he spent most of his Major League Baseball (MLB) career playing for the Brooklyn and Los Angeles Dodgers (1947–1962), later playing one season each for the New York Mets (1963) and San Francisco Giants (1964).