Losing Quotes

You'll never know how much you'll miss someone...until they are actually gone... - Unknown

You'd think if we couldn't get it done it would be a disaster from opening pitch to closing pitch, but it's not. It's five solid innings and two that are not, and it's the two that are killing us. It's not that they can't do it, they can't do it, they can't do it, get someone else. They do it nine out of ten times but that one out of ten hurts. - John Geary

You would not believe the doors that were opened this year compared to last year, based on making a bowl, based on turning it around and breaking that losing streak, getting a lot of national play. - Jamie Newberg

You work so hard to get to this point and then shoot yourself in the foot like that, it's inexcusable. It really is. Guys were losing their composure out there and that obviously can't happen. I guess if there's any light on it, it happened in Game 1. That's going to be a quick lesson for us. - Steve Rucchin

You won't fail if you're not perfect, you'll fail if you're not committed to improving yourself slightly each day. - Unknown

You want to win, but (losing) will help you if your guys can learn from it. Hopefully the little mistakes that happened tonight we won't make later in the year. - Jim White

You want to go into the playoffs winning and get that swagger about yourself. If you go into the playoffs losing, you don't feel that great about yourself and teams look at the things you didn't do well and try to key on those things and make you look bad. You want to build up as the season progresses along. - Kareem McKenzie

You want to finish the season with a win, not a loss. It's different when you finish with a win. There's a lot of positives you can bring from that. When you go out with a loss, losing is losing and it doesn't feel good. - Kelly Holcomb

You usually don't have to give Jimmy the take sign if we're losing the game. I wanted to see him have every chance. He got a good ball and he hit it. But the question will always be there about swinging 3-0. - Charlie Manuel