Top 18 Pennant Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Pennant Quotes from famous people such as Chuck Tanner, Leo Durocher, Sparky Anderson, Rob Sheffield, Marilyn Monroe, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder to lose one

It’s hard to win a pennant, but it’s harder to lose one.
Chuck Tanner
Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop.
Leo Durocher
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
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
We should have won the pennant that year. It was the best club I was ever on.
Jimmy Piersall
We want to add an American League pennant… and to bring the World Series to Arlington.
Tom Hicks
I’d rather win a pennant than an Academy Award.
Laraine Day
And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I’ll take the pennant every time.
Carl Yastrzemski
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.
Alex Bregman
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
When you’re in the middle of a pennant race, you can’t go up there thinking about home runs.
Sammy Sosa
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.
George Vecsey
The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant.
Pete Rose
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
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
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
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