Ken Landreaux quotes

Ken Landreaux quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Winning isn't as important as doing well individually. You can't take teamwork up to the front office to negotiate.”
-- Ken Landreaux

#Teamwork Quotes #Baseball Quotes #Winning Quotes

“An athlete experiences the emotions of pain and elation through triumph and defeat, through teamwork and individuality, as nothing more than a human being...that is the true glory of sport.”
“People have been known to achieve more as a result of working with others than against them.”
“There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.”
“Baseball should be the only thing on an eight year old boy's mind.”

Source : "Fictional character: Joe O'Malley". "Stolen Summer", www.imdb.com. 2002.
“It is decidedly not true that "nice guys finish last," as that highly original American baseball philosopher, Leo Durocher, was alleged to have said.”
“Winning has a joy and discrete purity to it that cannot be replaced by anything else.”
“Eagleton has spent his life inside two mental boxes, Catholicism and Marxism, of both of which he is a severe internal criticâ€”that is, he frequently kicks and scratches at the inside of the boxes, but does not leave them. Neither are ideologies that loosen their grip easily, and people who need the security of adherence to a big dominating ideology, however much they kick and scratch but without daring to leave go, hold on to it every bit as tightly as it holds onto them. The result is of course strangulation, but alas not mutual strangulation: the ideology always wins.”
“Startups often win because it's easier to see what comes next when you don't have to worry about maintaining what came last.”

Source : Interview with Michael Jarrett, www2.york.psu.edu. November 8, 1987.
“Della was my go all in. She was my winning hand. You can't play when you go all in and lose. I'm out." "No, you're not. This hand ain't over yet," Rush said.”
“When you get billions in aid and your weapons resupplied and your ammunition stock resupplied, you don't learn the lesson that war is bad and nobody wins.”

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