Quotes about World Series

It's worth everything to be in the World Series. Votes: 3

A World Series trophy is a wonderful thing to behold. Votes: 3

You don't just accidentally show up in the World Series. Votes: 3

Someday the Chicago Cubs are going to be in the World Series Votes: 3

It's never happened in the World Series competition, and it still hasn't. Votes: 3

I want to win a World Series. I couldn't care less about MVP. Votes: 3

The only thing on my mind now is getting that World Series ring. Votes: 3

Nobody does anything better than me in baseball (said before the 1971 World Series). Votes: 3

I really want to see the Cubs in the World Series. I really do. Votes: 3

I have three beautiful children and a World Series ring. That's all I need. Votes: 3

To get a save in the World Series is the reason I can't stop smiling. Votes: 3

I don't just think regular season. I think playoffs. World Series. That's how I think. Votes: 3

Until spring training in 1946, the only time I pitched was in 1945 in the GI World Series. Votes: 3

We want to add an American League pennant... and to bring the World Series to Arlington. Votes: 3

There's nothing wrong with the Little League World Series that locking out the adults couldn't cure. Votes: 3

Maybe you guys will get lucky this year and face the Orioles in the World Series Votes: 3

If the Mets can win the World Series, the United States can get out of Vietnam. Votes: 3

I don't just want to play in the playoffs. I want to win the World Series. Votes: 3

When we played, World Series checks meant something. Now all they do is screw up your taxes. Votes: 3

The only reason I don't like playing in the World Series is I can't watch myself play. Votes: 3

What does a mama bear on the pill have in common with the World Series? No cubs. Votes: 3

If the Cubs were to win (The World Series) it would be a coronary event for me. Votes: 3

I played for 18 years, but the only thing that meant anything to me was the World Series. Votes: 3

You play to win, to get that World Series ring, All-Star games and whatever comes with it. Votes: 3

Watching other teams in the World Series is like watching somebody else eat a Hot Fudge Sundae. Votes: 3

I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen. Votes: 3

There's nothing better than a team that comes out of nowhere and finds themselves in the World Series. Votes: 3

Before I pitch any game, from spring training to Game 7 of the World Series, I'm scared to death. Votes: 3

In the World Series, when a pitcher's not doing his job, they put another one in that can. Votes: 3

I'm an escaped car thief. I broke out of prison to see the Cubs in the World Series. Votes: 3

My dad talked a good game. [I'm as a] child got only the World Series on the radio. Votes: 3

Every time I toe the rubber, it's no different for me than it was in the World Series. Votes: 3

When we [the Braves] won the World Series in '95, I went nuts. I mean, that was my team. Votes: 3

If the World Series runs until election day, the networks will run the first one-half inning and project the winner. Votes: 3

The best possible thing in baseball is winning The World Series. The second best thing is losing The World Series. Votes: 3

I want to win when the whole world is watching, ... I want to win a World Series in an Angels uniform. Votes: 3

By far, the best moment of my big league career was when I caught the last out at the World Series. Votes: 3

When I got out of baseball, I got all the way out. I might watch a World Series game or something. Votes: 3

I would want to go to the future, 25 years in the future, and see if the Cubs ever win a World Series. Votes: 3

I would want to go to the future, 25 years in the future, and see if the Cubs ever win a World Series. Votes: 3

I'd like to get back and win the World Series and have that be the last image in my mind for the postseason. Votes: 3

It's an honor to be playing with these four players and to be a part of their fifth World Series title and my first. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I always got nervous the nights we played in the World Series. First pitch, I was nervous. Then after that, forget it; I'd start playing. Votes: 3

Everyone asks how I felt before the perfect game. You never feel bad when you're in the World Series. You've got all winter to rest. Votes: 3

I hope the car they (Sport Magazine who awarded it to the World Series MVP) give him (Brooks Robinson) has an extra large glove box. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

If Satch (Paige) and I were pitching on the same team, we would clinch the pennant by July fourth and go fishing until World Series time. Votes: 3

The last time the Cubs won the World Series was 1908. The last time they were in one was 1945. Hey, any team can have a bad century. Votes: 3

With the Cubs, they've gone so long without a World Series championship, they wanted to win every day. I want that too, but I didn't feel comfortable. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The College World Series, that's the end-all deal as a college player. To get a chance to play in the World Series and win it, that was surreal. Votes: 3

I set very high standards for myself and worked every game with the same energy and enthusiasm as if it were the seventh game of a World Series. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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! Votes: 3

It didn't happen, but I feel fortunate for the two chances we had and it's just a shame we didn't go to a World Series for Cub fans. Votes: 3

If some guys couldn't stand the heat, then they didn't belong in the major leagues. I don't know anybody who refused the World Series checks I helped them get. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

You know, a lot of people say they didn't want to die until the Red Sox won the World Series. Well, there could be a lot of busy ambulances tomorrow. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I threw so hard (after striking out Art Fletcher & Doc Crandall in the 9th inning of Game 1 of the 1912 World Series) I thought my arm would fly right off my body. Votes: 3

I did the 1972 Sapporo Games, and I was also the Reds announcer and was folded into the NBC coverage for the 1972 World Series. I also did the 1979 World Series for ABC. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

We don't have a World Series or a Super Bowl, so to be able to come home with a gold medal is amazing. I want to do it again in four more years. Votes: 3

It was much more fun playing with him than against him. If you wanted one pitcher to start the seventh game of the World Series, which he did in 1945, you'd pick Hal Newhouser. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

This is what you work for, putting all the other crap that you hear aside. Just being able to participate in a World Series is pretty much everything. But you do want to win! Votes: 3

I've said this before, but going and playing with the guys that have been to the World Series, the elite players of the game, there's no harm in hanging around those guys at all. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I imagine myself as the broadcaster for a Cubs-White Sox World Series, a Series that would last seven games, with the final game going extra innings before being suspended because of darkness at Wrigley Field. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

My coaching staff gets to go to the World Series. From a financial perspective that's great for coaches because baseball coaches in the Major League level don't really make that much money. People don't realize that. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

[The Angels are] a team that gives you an opportunity always to be in the playoffs. This time, my first time with them, I was very close to getting to the World Series, so why not stay? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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? Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

A champion, he said, wins a World Series or an Olympic and is hoisted on the shoulders of teammates and fans. A hero carries the people on his shoulders. Champions live for the moment- heroes, like Jackie Robinson, transcend time. Votes: 3

Before seeing 'The Pride of the Yankees,' you may or may not know that the Yankees referred to are the ones who win the World Series each year. After seeing it you will find that the reference is indirect. Votes: 3

Well, I know that I'll never forget that, but also I won't forget the hundreds of people who sent me letters, telegrams, and postcards during that World Series. There wasn't a single nasty message. Everybody tried to say something nice. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

There is nothing better than to make it to the College World Series. All of the extra reps in the weight room, all of the early morning practices, and all the hard work spent the entire year makes it worth it. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

The poet or storyteller who feels that he is competing with a superb double play in the World Series is a lost man. One would not want as a reader a man who did not appreciate the finesse of a double play. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

What we should have done is kept the same team that played in the '95 World Series. Those trades (Eddie Murray & Carlos Baerga) caused a lot of chaos in the organization. I didn't feel like we were moving in the right direction. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

If you had to point to one thing that made it less likely that the Red Sox would win the World Series, I would say it was those people that go to Fenway Park to watch the games. And then the media around it. Votes: 3

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 Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

I don't like to be compared to Joe Jackson. because Joe Jackson, I think, took money to throw World Series games. Well, I know I bet on my own team to win. There's pretty much a big difference there, but both of us were wrong. Votes: 3

[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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

That was my heart and that was my passion. All I ever wanted to do is wrestle. I never wanted to pitch in Game Seven of the World Series, I never wanted to throw the touchdown in the Superbowl, I wanted to wrestle...Be a professional wrestler. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

It's not how you start the season, it's how you finish. If you wind up helping the team make the playoffs, that's what you play for. You don't play to put up your numbers, but to try to get a chance to make it to the World Series. Votes: 3

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. Votes: 3

CART is one of the safest racing series in the world. Votes: 0

I think American television changed world television in its reinvention of the series. Votes: 0

The living world is not a single array... connected by unbroken series of intergrades. Votes: 0

World series attitude, champagne bottle life, nothing ever changes so tonight is like tomorrow night. Votes: 0

I don't want to be one of those great players who never made it to the (World) Series. Votes: 0

Exploring an ever-expanding world of diverse cultures and beliefs is at the very heart of the 'Dragonships' series. Votes: 0

The whole world is a series of miracles, but we're so used to them we call them ordinary things. Votes: 0

I think the world is a series of broken dams and floods, and my cartoons are tiny little lifeboats. Votes: 0

I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie. Votes: 0

The guy stroked his goatee. "What do you call twenty guys watching the world series?" "The New York Yankees," Butch replied. Votes: 0

What we call powers, secrets of nature, and force, are all within. In the external world are only a series of changes. Votes: 0

When we talk, answer questions, I'm addressing your tonal. I'm teaching you a way or a series of ways of dealing with the world. Votes: 0

The Big Bang Theory: When geeky scientists can be main characters in a hit prime time series, you know there's hope for the world. Votes: 0

Downton' is one of the best jobs in the world, and I'm looking forward to the next series for Maggie Smith's wicked sense of humour. Votes: 0

Series television is either a nightmare or the best thing in the whole world. It really depends on, I think, where you are in your life. Votes: 0

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development. Votes: 0

By the way, the Harry Potter series is literature, in spite of what some people might say. The way J.K. Rowling worked that world out is quite something. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0