Mauch Quotes & Sayings

You have to bear in mind that Mr. Autry's favorite horse was named Champion. He ain't ever had one called Runner Up. — Gene Mauch

Most one run games are lost, not won. — Gene Mauch

Baseball and malaria keep coming back. — Gene Mauch

He (Gaylord Perry) should be in the Hall of Fame with a tube of KY jelly attached to his plaque. — Gene Mauch

The first guy who lays a finger on this blind old man is fined fifty bucks! — Gene Mauch

The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do. — Gene Mauch

So, after three days of incessant brandy-drinking, he had burned out the youth from his blood, he had achieved this kindled state of oneness with all the world, which is the end of youth's most passionate desire. — D.H. Lawrence

Who do I like best, men or women? I think it really depends on what for! — Joyce Grenfell

I want everybody to feel he has a chance to get into a game when he comes to the ballpark. I play guys when I want to so they'll be ready when I have to. I don't consider myself a motivator of players. I think it's an insult to a ballplayer to have to be motivated. — Gene Mauch

He (Sandy Koufax) throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see. — Gene Mauch

As the vision faded, the past and the present seemed to merge. — Alexandra Adornetto

Maria Edgeworth grumbled against vandals who ruined immortal works by quoting the life out of them. "How far our literature may in future suffer from these blighting swarms, will best be conceived by a glance at what they have already withered and blasted of the favourite productions of our most popular poets." Shakespeare, Milton, and Dryden, scissored, patched, and frayed. — Willis Regier

The happiness you have a right to enjoy has a name and a face: it is Jesus of Nazareth, hidden in the Eucharist. — Pope Benedict XVI

Since the mind, which was meant to be reasonable and intelligent, has, by dark and inveterate vices, become too weak to adhere joyously to His unchangeable light (or even to bear it) until, by gradual renewal and healing, it is made fit for such happiness, its first need was to be instructed by faith and purified. — Augustine Of Hippo

They say what doesn't kill u makes u stronger.. but truth is sometimes it does kill u, it kills a part of u then it makes u stronger. — Tilicia Haridat

Life exists only at this very moment, and in this moment it is infinite and eternal. For the present moment is infinitely small; before we can measure it, it has gone, and yet it persists for ever. — Alan W. Watts

I have an amazing ability to forget. — Gene Mauch

The only thing I regret about age are the wrinkles. But I have high hopes
for this new almond cream! Do you know, that Italian apothecary promises the cream will make one's
skin as soft as a baby's cheek? Once your child arrives, we'll have a viable comparison. Not having seen
a baby in years, how would I know what its skin looks like?"
"I'm glad my condition will prove to be of use," Esme said rather tartly. — Eloisa James

Comebacks Baseball and malaria keep coming back. GENE MAUCH The problem with being Comeback Player of the Year is it means you have to go somewhere before you can come back. BERT BLYLEVEN It was like watching a movie you've seen a hundred times, only they snuck in an alternate ending. BILL SIMMONS, on the Red Sox winning the 2004 World Series — Peter Handrinos

I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager. — Gene Mauch

He (Don Drysdale) talks very well for a guy who's had two fingers in his mouth all his life. — Gene Mauch

Play him, fine him, and play him again. — Gene Mauch

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

Gansey thought of one hundred things that he could say to Adam about how it would be all right, how it was for the best, how Adam Parrish had been his own man before he'd met Gansey and there was no way he'd stop being his own man just by changing the roof over his head, how some days Gansey wished that he could be him, because Adam was so very real and true in a way that Gansey couldn't ever seem to be. But Gansey's words had somehow become unwitting weapons, and he didn't trust himself to not accidentally discharge them again. — Maggie Stiefvater

You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself. — Gene Mauch

There should be a new way to record standings in this league; one column for wins, one for losses and one for gifts. — Gene Mauch

[Saint Anthony] said, in his solitude, he sometimes encountered devils who looked like angels, and other times he found angels who looked like devils. When asked how he could tell the difference, the saint said that you can only tell which is which by the way you feel after the creature has left your company. — Elizabeth Gilbert