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My idea of heaven is a pennant winner.
I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award.
Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop.
It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder to lose one.
I'm not thinking about records. Just winning the pennant would be exciting.
The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.
Fans all have their memories of pennant races, good memories, sick memories.
We should have won the pennant that year. It was the best club I was ever on.
Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant.
We want to add an American League pennant... and to bring the World Series to Arlington.
Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.
There will be a time when everyone on the team is going to contribute to winning a pennant.
When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs.
And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time.
If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are.
The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three days.
To play meaningful games and try and win a division, a pennant, a World Series, that's what it's all about. That's the thing I'm most proud of.
I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.
If your man is a sports enthusiast, you may have to resign yourself to his spouting off in a monotone on a prize fight, football game or pennant race.
I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?
A-Rod don't want to be the straw that stirs the drink. He want to be known as a fair guy who goes out and help a team to win a pennant. He's a great guy.
No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness.
Pennant races drain the energy from the best of them. Old-fashioned baseball races are to me the most grueling daily test in any sport. Gotta keep coming out, every day, in the face of looming disaster.
Baseball's Opening Day is full of time-honored traditions: the President throws out the first ball, the Cubs' starting pitcher walks away with a 54.00 ERA, the Royals get mathematically eliminated from the pennant race.
No. 1, these guys out here on this field. They keep my energy level up. They try hard, they don't complain about things - and I'd just like to be with them when things are good, and hopefully we can win a pennant together.
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.
Don't believe those tales you hear about my being all-in. Wait until you see me in action for your team and then form your opinion of my worth to your team. I assure you that I am delighted to be a Pirate and that I will do my best to bring another pennant to the Smoky City.
