World Series Quotes:

It's worth everything to be in the World Series.

- Scott Kazmir

topic: World, World Series, Series

Heroes get remembered, but legends never die.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Hero, Athlete, Legends, World Series, Inspiring Movie

The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.

- Tommy Lasorda

topic: Sports, Baseball, Winning, World Series, Motivational Baseball

You don't just accidentally show up in the World Series.

- Derek Jeter

source: "Earning a rep". Sports Illustrated, October 25, 2003.

topic: Inspiring, Success, Winning, World Series

There's nothing better than a team that comes out of nowhere and finds themselves in the World Series.

- Tom Glavine

topic: Team, World, World Series

I do love the feeling of a big win. But you don't have to have a World Series ring to be a winner. A winner is somebody who goes out there every day and exhausts himself trying to get something accomplished. Being able to get the most from their ability. That's what characterizes a winner.

- Joe Torre

topic: Winning, Feelings, Trying, World Series

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

- Lou Gehrig

source: Farewell to Baseball Address, delivered 4 July 1939, Yankee Stadium, New York

topic: Baseball, Reading, Men, World Series, Institute

What women want: To be loved, to be listened to, to be desired, to be respected, to be needed, to be trusted, and sometimes, just to be held. What men want: Tickets to the World Series.

- Dave Barry

topic: Respect, Women, Funny Marriage, World Series, Women Want

Baseball is caring. Player and fan alike must care, or there is no game. If there's no game, there's no pennant race and no World Series. And for all any of us know there might soon be no nation at all. It is good to care - in any dimension. More Americans put their caring into baseball than into anything else I can think of - and most put at least a little of it there. Baseball can be trusted, as great art can, and bad art can't.

- William Saroyan

topic: Baseball, Art, Caring, World Series

At the beginning of the World Series of 1947, I experienced a completely new emotion when the National Anthem was played. This time, I thought, it is being played for me, as much as for anyone else.

- Jackie Robinson

topic: World, Emotion, Anthem, World Series, Being Played

I was told I would never make it because I'm too short. Well, I'm still too short, but I've got 10 All-Star games, two World Series championships, and I'm a very happy and contented guy. It doesn't matter what your height is, it's what's in your heart.

- Kirby Puckett

topic: Stars, Heart, Games, World Series, All Stars

It's never happened in the World Series competition, and it still hasn't.

- Yogi Berra

topic: Funny, Baseball, Competition, World Series

But more important than personal awards is winning the World Series. That's the max that anyone could ask for. Let alone to have the ball in your in your glove for the final out of the World Series. That was the ultimate.

- Dennis Eckersley

topic: Sports, Winning, Awards, World Series

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs.

- Harry Caray

topic: Baseball, World, Mama, Baseball Games, World Series

The practice of our democracy depends on a sense of, and knowledge of, history in the same way that playing in the World Series requires a bat and a ball.

- Lewis H. Lapham

topic: Practice, Democracy, Bats, World Series

I have three beautiful children and a World Series ring. That's all I need.

- Mark Teixeira

topic: Beautiful, Children, Three, World Series

Why the fairy tale of Willie Mays making a brilliant World Series catch, and then dashing off to play stickball in the street with his teenage pals. That's baseball. So is the husky voice of a doomed Lou Gehrig saying, 'I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of this earth.'

- Ernie Harwell

source: Farewell speech at Yankee Stadium, New York, N.Y., 4 July 1939.

topic: Baseball, Teenage, Men, World Series, Dashing

If you're talented enough and play long enough, and put up numbers, you'll get to the Hall of Fame. That doesn't make you a World Series winner.

- Jimmy Rollins

topic: Play, Numbers, Long, World Series

I stand here not because I have fame or money or because I play on TV or hit a World Series home run. That doesn't matter. It doesn't matter because I stand here as a humble person because I know He could have picked someone else. In His Word he says, 'the least of us shall be first.' When I look up, I realize I am blessed and I say thank you Jesus for all you have done for me because without you I would be nothing.

- Joe Carter

topic: Running, Jesus, Blessed, World Series, Humble Person

A World Series trophy is a wonderful thing to behold.

- Willie Stargell

topic: Sports, Trophies, World, World Series, Wonderful Things

The guy stroked his goatee. "What do you call twenty guys watching the world series?" "The New York Yankees," Butch replied.

- J.R. Ward

source: J.R. Ward (2011). “J.R. Ward The Black Dagger Brotherhood Novels 1-4”, p.452, Penguin

topic: New York, Yankees, Guy, World Series, Vishous

He's (his father Jorge Posada IV) happy for me. He remembers all of my big games. When I hit my first home run in the World Series, he was here, and he cried. It's like I'm living his dream.

- Jorge Posada

topic: Dream, Running, Father, World Series, Cried

People recognize me wherever I go, where it used to be just New York. I guess people who aren't even baseball fans watch the World Series. I was driving down the freeway in Los Angeles over the winter and a guy pulled up next to me and gave me the finger.

- Graig Nettles

topic: Baseball, New York, Winter, World Series, Baseball Fans

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes.

- Don Drysdale

topic: Sports, Screw Ups, World, World Series

The Giants have won. They have won the World Series for the third time in five years. And Madison Bumgarner has firmly etched his name on the all-time World Series record books as one of the greatest World Series pitchers the game has ever seen.

- Jon Miller

topic: Book, Games, Names, World Series

You play to win, to get that World Series ring, All-Star games and whatever comes with it.

- Nick Johnson

topic: Stars, Winning, Games, World Series, Play To Win

The Yankees won the pennant, we went on to the World Series, 41 years after that in the city of Toronto. The great city of Toronto, and all the provinces in Canada, everybody reached out and they were excited because we won the first World Series ever, across the border.

- Dave Winfield

topic: Sports, Yankees, Years, World Series, Great Cities

Although I have to say, it's become a lot harder for me since I won the world series because everyone wants to beat me. For example, bluffing is really tough now, because there's always someone who calls me on the off-chance that they'll then be able to say they read a world champion's bluff.

- Chris Moneymaker

source: Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. October 7, 2005.

topic: Champion, Example, World, World Series, Bluffs

And then 45 years later, as I finished my career in the great city of Cleveland, that was another great way to end my career, going to the World Series.

- Dave Winfield

topic: Years, Cities, Careers, World Series

When I got out of baseball, I got all the way out. I might watch a World Series game or something.

- Rollie Fingers

topic: Baseball, Games, Watches, World Series

The World Series is played in my doubtless too-nostalgic imagination in some kind of autumn afternoon light, and seeing it exclusively in the bitter chill of midnight breaks the spell of even the best of games.

- Adam Gopnik

topic: Autumn, Games, Light, World Series

When somebody talks about your career, most people are gonna talk about wins and losses, a World Series or pennants. But if somebody asked me how I would sum up my career, I would say I had a unbelievable, fabulous career.

- Jim Leyland

source: "The skip’s good-bye". Interview with Mitch Albom, www.mitchalbom.com. November 10, 2013.

topic: Loss, Winning, Careers, World Series, Wins And Losses

Someday, the Chicago Cubs are going to be in the World Series...

- Harry Caray

source: "Budweiser Turned Around This Incredible Cubs World Series Ad Overnight" by Michael Sebastian, www.esquire.com. November 3, 2016.

topic: Chicago, World, Someday, World Series, Chicago Cubs

We've been waiting since 1918 for the Boston Red Sox to win the World Series, and ... if I had a choice between the White House and the World Series this year, I'm going to take the White House. How's that?

- John F. Kerry

topic: Winning, Boston, Years, World Series, Boston Red Sox

I had dreams of catching the ball for the final out in the World Series and being mobbed by my teammates. Well, I guess all my dreams didn't come true.

- Robin Yount

topic: Dream, World, Teammate, World Series

Tiger is the greatest thing that's happened to the tour in a long time. He has brought incredible attention to golf at a time of year when football and the World Series always take precedence. Everything I've heard about him seems to be true.

- Payne Stewart

topic: Sports, Football, Golf, World Series

Aw, everybody knows that game, the day I hit the homer off ole Charlie Root there in Wrigley Field, the day October first, the third game of that thirty-two World Series. But right now I want to settle all arguments. I didn't exactly point to any spot, like the flagpole. Anyway, I didn't mean to, I just sorta waved at the whole fence, but that was foolish enough. All I wanted to do was give that thing a ride... outta the park... anywhere.

- Babe Ruth

topic: Baseball, Mean, Roots, World Series, Two Worlds

They only delivered the newspaper once a week where I lived in Oklahoma, and those people lived and died with the box score of my games. My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.

- Johnny Bench

topic: Winning, Oklahoma, Games, World Series

I've been in just about every situation as a player and coach and manager. I've been in the playoffs, World Series, and I know how to get there.

- Don Baylor

topic: Player, World, Situation, World Series

Watching other teams in the World Series is like watching somebody else eat a Hot Fudge Sundae.

- Joe Torre

topic: Team, Ice Cream, Hot, World Series, Sundaes

Maybe these kids are just too young and too dumb to know about the first 13. Maybe they can't comprehend that the Braves have only won one World Series in those 13 years.

- Tim Hudson

topic: Stupid, Kids, Years, World Series

The greatest single moment Ive ever known in Detroit was Jim Northrups triple in the seventh game of the World Series in St. Louis. It was a stunning moment because not only were the Tigers winning a world championship that meant so much to an entire city, they were beating the best pitcher I ever saw-Bob Gibson.

- Ernie Harwell

topic: Single Mom, Winning, Games, World Series, Stunning

Celebrating creates an atmosphere of recognition and positive energy. Imagine a team winning the World Series without champagne spraying everywhere. And yet companies win all the time and let it go without so much as a high five. Work is too much a part of life not to recognize moments of achievement. Make a big deal out of them. If you don't, no one will.

- Jack Welch

topic: Team, Winning, Achievement, World Series, Team Winning

Finishing overall champion at the World Series in both the individual and synchro events has given me great confidence and I'm pleased I've been diving with consistency.

- Tom Daley

topic: Consistency, Champion, World, World Series, Great Confidence

Its unbelievable, I cant even describe it. To be a big part of bringing the World Series the first World Series ever to Houston is just tremendous.

- Lance Berkman

topic: Houston, World, Firsts, World Series

The playoffs are the wedge between the season and the World Series. If you lose, it means you won't be going to the greatest sports event in this country...You're forgotten by Thanksgiving.

- Tim McCarver

source: "Oh, Baby, I Love It!". Book by Ray Robinson and Tim McCarver, www.huffingtonpost.com. 1987.

topic: Sports, Country, Mean, World Series

If the Cubs were to win (The World Series) it would be a coronary event for me.

- Steve Goodman

topic: Winning, Would Be, World, World Series

When he (Roger Clemens) threw the bat (during Game 2 of the 2000 World Series), I basically walked out and kept asking him what his problem was. He really had no response. I was trying to figure out whether it was intentional or not. I was going to ask him. If it was, then obviously he really no had response. I was more shocked and confused than anything.

- Mike Piazza

topic: Confused, Games, Trying, World Series, No Response

Here's an uplifting story. Congratulations to the Little League team from Huntington Beach, California. Yeah, they beat Japan to win the Little League World Series. That's pretty good. See, that proves that when math and science aren't involved, our kids can beat anybody.

- Jay Leno

topic: Uplifting, Beach, Team, Huntington Beach, World Series

I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.

- Joe Torre

topic: Years, World, World Series

I was throwing a lot harder than I ever have at the end of last year. I got to ninety-five (mph) a couple of times in the World Series and I'm more of an eighty-eight or eighty-nine guy who relies on location and movement.

- Andy Pettitte

topic: Couple, Eight, Mph, World Series, Eighty