Baseball Losing Quotes

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run."

- Babe Ruth

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"The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second greatest feeling is to lose a major league game."

- Chuck Tanner

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"In baseball, there's always the next day."

- Ryne Sandberg

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"No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference."

- Tommy Lasorda

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"You may glory in a team triumphant, but you fall in love with a team in defeat."

- Roger Kahn

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"Do what you love to do and give it your very best. Whether it's business or baseball, or the theatre, or any field. If you don't love what you're doing and you can't give it your best, get out of it. Life is too short. You'll be an old man before you know it."

- Al Lopez

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"I tell the kids, somebody's gotta win, somebody's gotta lose. Just don't fight about it. Just try to get better."

- Yogi Berra

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"If you're going to play at all, you're out to win. Baseball, board games, playing Jeopardy, I hate to lose."

- Derek Jeter

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"It kills me to lose. If I’m a troublemaker, and I don’t think that my temper makes me one, then it’s because I can't stand losing."

- Jackie Robinson

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