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"I managed a team that was so bad, we considered a 2-0 count on the batter a rally."
Rich Donnelly
"Baseball is like a poker game, nobody wants to quit when he's losing: nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead."
Jackie Robinson
"We made too many wrong mistakes."
Yogi Berra
"We didn't lose. We just didn't play good enough to win."
Nomar Garciaparra
"The best possible thing in baseball is winning the World Series. The second best thing is losing the World Series."
Tommy Lasorda
"Show me a good loser, and I'll show you an idiot"
Charlie Gehringer
"There is no crying in baseball."
Tom Hanks
"Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning, you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking."
Gene Mauch
"I lost it in the sun!"
Billy Loes, after fumbling a grounder
"Winning is never final - losing is never fatal."
Vincent M. Fortanasce
"The only thing worse than a Mets game is a Mets double header."
Casey Stengel
"I learned a lot, but I don't want to learn it again."
Matt Keough, after 18 straight losses.
"There are peaks and valleys in this game. We're in a valley - Death Valley."
Kirby Puckett
"How can a guy win a game if you don't give him any runs?"
Robert "Bo" Belinsky, after losing a game 15-0
"You can't sweep if you don't win the first game, and it's tougher to win two out of three if you lose the first one."
Todd Helton
"It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one."
Chuck Tanner
"You can't tell how much spirit a team has until it starts losing."
Rocky Colavito
"The Mets have found ways of losing that I never knew existed."
Casey Stengel
"Your chances of winning, I've got to believe are really, really small when you score one run in 18 innings."
Clint Hurdle
"They (the Rockies) don't look like a major-league baseball team, but more like a Wednesday night Industrial Softball League team with every player supplying his own uniform."
Woody Paige
"I'm tired of it. I don't want to hear about it anymore."
Bill Buckner