Most ball games are lost, not won.

You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.

If a man watches three football games in a row, he should be declared legally dead.

All my games were political games; I was, like Joan of Arc, perpetually being burned at the stake.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

It is in games that many men discover their paradise.

I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed.

Those market researchers... are playing games with you and me and with this entire country. Their so-called samples of opinion are no more accurate or reliable than my grandmother's big toe was when it came to predicting the weather.

The triple is the most exciting play in baseball. Home runs win a lot of games, but I never understood why fans are so obsessed with them.

Baseball, it is said, is only a game. True. And the Grand Canyon is only a hole in Arizona. Not all holes, or games, are created equal.

Most one run games are lost, not won.

They say some of my stars drink whiskey, but I have found that ones who drink milkshakes don't win many ball games.

A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

I won twenty-eight games in thirty-five and I couldn't believe my eyes when the Cards sent me a contract with a cut in salary. Mr Rickey said I deserved a cut because I didn't win thirty games.

Hell, if I didn't drink drink or smoke, I'd win twenty games every year. It's easy when you don't drink or smoke or horse around.