World Series Quotes by Theo Epstein, Curt Schilling, Jake Johnson, Rob Cross, Robinson Cano, Bill de Blasio and many others.
I want that second World Series ring. I want to win again.
Everyone I knew was a Red Sox fan. Living up there in 1967 – the Impossible Dream season – that moment was incredibly compelling. I just naturally gravitated to the team. Nineteen seventy-five was arguably the greatest World Series of all time.
That’s why we play. That’s why we train. That’s why we do everything in the offseason. It is to win a World Series.
You don’t just accidentally show up in the World Series.
I want to win when the whole world is watching, … I want to win a World Series in an Angels uniform.
I really love Philadelphia and all of the fans, my teammates, the front office, the organization, everybody. I know I’m going to miss them. I really appreciate everything we did together. On the other side, I am happy because I have a chance to go to the playoffs. Another opportunity, maybe, to go to the World Series.
Baseball and its 162-game schedule are challenging enough, but try winning the world series of dugout poker with cards supplied by Royals owner David Glass, the Wal-Mart-trained billionaire.
In Massachusetts, scientists have created the first human clone. The bad thing is that in thirty years, the clone will still be depressed because the Boston Red Sox will still have not won a World Series.
It’s so hard to win a World Series.
My theme is, ‘The spirit of friendship is the balance of life.’ Not money. Not the World Series. It’s friendship. The relationships I have with people, that’s enough to keep me happy.
My pat line about the Cubs and payroll is that the amount of merchandise the Cubs would sell off a world series championship would more than cover for a big payroll.
I think when you have a National Championship Game, a Super Bowl, a Final Four, a World Series, I don’t see why there is any reason to pick out one individual as the MVP because it is about a team winning a championship. Maybe that best explains what I believe in at the core in my work as a broadcaster.
Night baseball isn’t an aberration. What’s an aberration is a team that hasn’t won a World Series since 1908. They tend to think of themselves as a little Williamsburg, a cute little replica of a major league franchise. Give me the Oakland A’s, thank you very much. People who do it right.
Going to Omaha for the College World Series – the people there are tremendous – huge crowds and a lot of excitement. I still remember those days – you make a lot of friends that you never forget when you win a championship like that.
When you’ve done it long enough – I’ve done something like 21 World Series – just about every fan base has turned off the TV when their team lost and I was screaming and yelling for the other side.
I think everyone deserves more than one World Series every 108 years so.
Getting to be in Chicago when the Cubs won the World Series was one of the most magical experiences I think I’ve ever had in a city.
2004 was a great year for Boston! The Patriots won the Super Bowl! Boston hosted its first national political convention! And – the Red Sox won the World Series!
March Madness is an incredible three weeks. I firmly believe it’s the greatest three weeks in sports. You have the Super Bowl; you have the 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.
Getting to say you’re going to the World Series is a pretty special thing.
To win the World Series, you have to be able to do a lot of things well.
The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series.
That’s everyone’s motivation: to get to the playoffs and win the World Series.
I do think we can be honest and upfront that certain organizations haven‘t gotten the job done. That’s the approach we took in Boston. We identified certain things that we hadn’t been doing well, that might have gotten in the way of a World Series, and eradicated them.
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.
The World Series is something that rarely gets to a number of venues in professional baseball. And that’s one problem because we want the fan base of particular cities to participate in the World Series, even though there may be a lull in the particular performance of the regional team.
I first became interested in ‘great moments‘ when I read about the famous Feller-to-Boudreau pickoff play in the 1948 World series.
We’re all trying so hard to win each of these World Series events and the standard now is phenomenal but it’s great that everyone’s pushing each other.
The only reason I don’t like playing in the World Series is I can’t watch myself play.
I had a great time at school. The experience was quite fulfilling, especially going to the World Series.
I have done a lot of NFL games, a season-opening home games, playoff games, championship games, and of course Stanley Cup games, World Series, NBA championship games. But I have never done a Superbowl. It’s probably the only major sporting event I’ve never done and I would like to.
It’s worth everything to be in the World Series.
In New York, the Mets are winning the World Series in 1969; that was pretty big, but I would say the moon landing was right up there with the Mets in the World Series. So it made a, a big impression on me as a little kid.
If the World Series was on the line and I could pick one pitcher to pitch the game, I’d choose Whitey Ford every time.
I’m in my truck talking to Jesus. And you can see a World Series ring on my right pinkie finger. But when I take my sunglasses off a second later, it’s gone. It’s the whole divine intervention thing. You know Jesus had something to do with them winning.
My No. 1 thing is to win a World Series. The rest comes as it comes.
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.
Whether it’s Bellator, OneFC, World Series, whatever, the door‘s open for me. Financial stability is the most important thing for me.
Obviously, I think the most meaningful thing is winning, and winning the World Series, but the way you help your team, if that is stealing bases and you can be the best at it, I think that’s pretty cool.
When we build that foundation for sustained success, and it ultimately results in a World Series, it’s going to be more than just a World Series.
I practised as an architect for 10 years. I qualified in 1973 with a fellowship diploma of architecture. World Series Cricket gave me the freedom to go out and pursue architecture.
Until spring training in 1946, the only time I pitched was in 1945 in the GI World Series.
I praise World Series of Fighting, they gave me every opportunity I had, and at the end, they were totally professional and did everything they could to help me out.
The America’s Cup World Series was created in 2011, with an eye toward conjuring more off-cycle interest and marketing opportunities. It coincided with the ascent of foiling catamarans, a type of boat that goes faster and looks almost Photoshopped, the way it practically floats in air when it races.
The World Series of Poker was becoming popular, and there were a lot of really bad poker players out there. The misperception was that I was really good, but I just ground it out. It was a good way to make money for Box.
You play baseball. You play a lot of games. You win a lot of stuff. You win a World Series. But if that’s all you’ve done, what have you got to show for it?
You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event, and you’ll always hold that special, but if you’re looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you’re able to do.
You can keep going on and on about the interactions of people, which makes it a great drama and great event ,and you’ll always hold that special, but if you’re looking at a baseball moment, the feeling you get when you win the World Series by far exceeds anything else in the game that you’re able to do.
How can I play baseball if I’m stupid? If I was stupid I wouldn’t have pitched in the World Series. I’d be playing ball in Mexico or Yugoslavia or on Pluto.
When I got out of baseball, I got all the way out. I might watch a World Series game or something.
I’d like to get back and win the World Series and have that be the last image in my mind for the postseason.
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.
Imagine if baseball were taught the way science is taught in most inner-city schools. Schoolchildren would get lectures about the history of the World Series. High school students would occasionally reproduce famous plays of the past. Nobody would get in the game themselves until graduate school.
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.
When you taste winning the World Series, you want to do that every year.
If you had told me in 1997 that even 5 people would be waiting online for me to sign my new book in 2009, I would have jumped around like Joe Carter in the 1993 World Series. I love it. I can’t imagine why anyone wouldn’t like it. The only thing I worry about is carpal tunnel syndrome – my last tour almost caused it.
Going through college a Red Sox fan and knowing the history behind everything that was going on back in the ’80s and finally getting a chance to win a World Series for this great city and bringing it back after 86 years, it was truly special, and it’s one of the highlights that I’ll remember for a long time.
Once, as a 12 year-old boy, you’ve had the experience of seeing your team win the World Series, there is nothing that will ever replace that, or taint that.
I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series.
I’ve been a Yankees fan for a long time. When I was a kid in the mid-’70s, the Yankees were really great. They had Reggie Jackson in ’77. I was 8 years old at the time. He hit three home runs to win the World Series in game six against the Dodgers, and I was just hooked.
In 1960 when Pittsburgh beat us in the World Series, we outscored them 55-27. It was the only time I think the better team lost. I was so disappointed I cried on the plane ride home.
I like that the ‘Underworld‘ series created a whole other world that’s totally different yet familiar to our own.
I’ve been very fortunate to be involved in all the Super Bowls, to see some World Series, to cover heavyweight championship fights; I’ve been to the Olympics and seen every sporting event there is.
To a New Yorker, a 1948 Indians World Series baseball signed by the whole team might be worth only $200 to $300, but to a Clevelander like myself, it might be, like, $1,000 to $2,000.
We know how hard it is to make the World Series; to do it two years in a row is really special. I know how lucky I am to be a part of it two years in a row.
I grew up in New Bedford, Massachusetts, and I’m a huge Red Sox fan. I’ve probably been to Fenway 40 times. I’ve been pretty lucky as a sports fan because the Patriots have won Super Bowls and the Red Sox have won World Series during my lifetime.
I grew up a Phillies fan. Me and my buddies tailgated a couple of times when they won the World Series. I like just being in that atmosphere.
My big break was when I won ‘Search for a Supermodel Australia,’ and then I came second in the world series, and that was all good, but I was just having fun; it wasn’t real to me.
What I found is that experience in the World Series made me connect more with the fans.
To win a World Series, the whole team has to be hot, everything has to go your way.
I’ve spent 34 years associated with the Cubs, and part of the reason I’ve stayed in baseball is because I want to be part of a World Series winner.
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.’
We’ve got to win a championship and bring a World Series trophy back to Chicago.
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.
I don’t just think regular season. I think playoffs. World Series. That’s how I think.
We don’t just say this every spring training – ‘Playoffs, World Series.’ You’ve got to do it.
The guy stroked his goatee. “What do you call twenty guys watching the world series?” “The New York Yankees,” Butch replied.
St. Louis is a good example of a vibrant city. Having stayed in a hotel in 2011 overlooking Cardinals stadium when they won the World Series, their fans definitely show up loud and proud.
My goal on Earth is not to win a World Series or be the best baseball player who ever lived. That simply is not up to me because I have to wait and see if it is part of the Lord‘s plan. My goal is to follow the Lord and what he wants me to do so that someday I may enter His kingdom and receive everlasting life.
When I was a kid in New York, long before saturation sports coverage, the world heavyweight championship was, with the baseball World Series, the great national event.
I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn’t happen.
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.
If I was at the final table at the World Series of Poker, that would probably be the most exciting thing I’ve ever done in my life. And believe me, the UFC, the announcing in the Octagon, is extremely exciting.
We want to win a World Series for Detroit. That’s our goal.
I’ve been fortunate to be on two teams that have won the World Series. I’ve had a chance to go through that and see how much fun it is and the memories you make going through that process. No matter how many times you do it, you’re always going to have an itch to do that again.
The only thing on my mind now is getting that World Series ring.
By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series.
I don’t want to be one of those great players who never made it to the (World) Series.
I rooted for the Milwaukee Brewers and its stars, Robin Yount and Paul Molitor. I went to a lot of games, including the World Series in 1982. The Brewers may have been a bad team for most of my life, but to have your team at its peak when you are thirteen years old is an experience I wish for every fan.
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.
People don’t own teams to lose money. If you ask any owner whether they would rather make $20 million and come in last place or lose $20 million and win a World Series, there’s only one guy who honestly would take that championship: George Steinbrenner. Nobody else.
[The World Series] introduced me for the first time to a team with a lot of black players. Detroit had about three of them: I think it was Willie Horton, Gates Brown, and Earl Wilson – might have been one or two more in ’68.
I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do.
The truth is that for those 86 long years when the Red Sox went without a World Series win, fans were not only in a recession, but trapped in a longstanding, deeply entrenched sports depression.
I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.
That’s what every young kid thinks about when they first put on a uniform – is to play in the Major League and then, ultimately, play in a World Series. To me, that was the ultimate, winning in ’86.
Winning the World Series, winning the MVP, you feel like you have everything.
I don’t like the idea of this team won a trade or that team did. I think it commodifies players in an unnecessary way. Let’s just go win a World Series. How’s that?
Philadelphia loves its team, and being able to win a World Series for the city, fans, players and our Phillies organization meant so much to me.
You don’t get a chance to go to the playoffs and World Series very often, but to be able to experience it with the people you love most in the world is really fun.
Someday, the Chicago Cubs are going to be in the World Series…
I’m here to win a World Series. I’m excited to be here with my team. I’m excited to be here with the Dodgers. We’ve got one goal, which is to win, and we’re not going to stop until we get it.
All the individual stuff is great, but I just want to win a World Series.
My biggest moment was winning the World Series because everyone in my town was able to feel he was a world champion.