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The moment the game (AL Pennant versus the Twins) was over I sprinted for the dugout. The fans were pouring onto the field. If they'd caught me they'd have torn my uniform into shreds for souvenirs. -- Carl Yastrzemski
My idea of heaven is a pennant winner. -- Tom Yawkey
I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award. -- Laraine Day
Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop. -- Leo Durocher
It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder to lose one. -- Chuck Tanner
The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant. -- Pete Rose
We want to add an American League pennant... and to bring the World Series to Arlington. -- Tom Hicks
Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year. -- Sparky Anderson
We should have won the pennant that year. It was the best club I was ever on. -- Jimmy Piersall
Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant. -- Casey Stengel
When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs. -- Sammy Sosa
There will be a time when everyone on the team is going to contribute to winning a pennant. -- Joe Torre
And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time. -- Carl Yastrzemski
If we're going to win the pennant, we've got to start thinking we're not as good as we think we are. -- Casey Stengel
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. -- Whitey Herzog
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. -- Chuck Tanner
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. -- Marilyn Monroe
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? -- Sparky Anderson
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. -- Rob Sheffield
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. -- John McGraw
Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll. -- Dusty Baker
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. -- Frank Robinson
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. -- Dave Winfield
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. -- Vic Willis
I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award -- Laraine Day
It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder losing one. -- Chuck Tanner
But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan -- Steve Goodman
You take a team with twenty-five assholes and I'll show you a pennant. I'll show you the New York Yankees. -- Bill Lee
I believe there are certain things that cannot be bought -- loyalty, friendship, health, love and an American League pennant. -- Edward Bennett Williams
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When I wasn't lying awake thinking and planning and fighting over that furious pennant race, I was dreaming restless dreams about it. -- Smoky Joe Wood
People don't know this, but I helped the Cardinals win the pennant. I came down with hepatitis. The trainer injected me with it! -- Bob Uecker
We won (the pennant) because we've got a superior ball club. Not many stars perhaps, but the kind of team that always plays well together. -- Nellie Fox
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. -- Dizzy Dean
I'm mad at him, too, for being out late. But I'm not mad enough to take a chance on losing a ball game and possibly the pennant. -- Casey Stengel
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 years. -- Whitey Herzog

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