Following is our list of the most famous pennant quotations and slogans. We've compiled this selection of inspirational pennant quotes. Hopefully, these pennant quotes will keep you motivated not only during hard times but to expand your pennant knowledge!
FLAG, n. A colored rag borne above troops and hoisted on forts and ships. It appears to serve the same purpose as certain signs that one sees and vacant lots in London — Ambrose Bierce
I created a flag from the sport's dignity. I oversee the name of my family with affection, steady nerves and blood. — Helio Gracie
The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history. — Woodrow Wilson
Go my favorite sports team go! Score a goal. Unit. Basket. Go squadron! Defeat the opponents soundly in this...skirmish. — Brian Regan
There is hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags do not wave in a vacuum. — Arthur C. Clarke
A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. — Napoleon Bonaparte
Sure I wave the American flag. Do you know a better flag to wave? — John Wayne
Come up and be a kite,
On a diamond flight! — Kate Bush
The flag that was the symbol of slavery on the high seas for a long time was not the Confederate battle flag, it was sadly the Stars and Stripes. — Alan Keyes
And the star-spangled banner in triumph doth wave,
O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave. — Francis Scott Key
Sound trumpets! Let our bloody colours wave! And either victory, or else a grave. — William Shakespeare
Win, lose, or tie, you're gonna play like champions! — Herb Brooks
The only thing I can cheer for in Philadelphia is the national anthem. — Bill Belichick
The true harbinger of spring is not crocuses or swallows returning to Capistrano, but the sound of the bat on the ball. — Bill Veeck
Short Pennant Quotes
Son, we'd like to keep you around this season but we're going to try and win a pennant. — Casey Stengel
You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents. — Earl Weaver
We want to add an American League pennant... and to bring the World Series to Arlington. — Tom Hicks
Nobody ever won a pennant without a star shortstop. — Leo Durocher
The team that gets off to a good start wins pennants. — John McGraw
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
It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder to lose one. — Chuck Tanner
When you're in the middle of a pennant race, you can't go up there thinking about home runs. — Sammy Sosa
The team that wins two-thirds of its one run games usually wins the pennant. — Pete Rose
And if I have my choice between a pennant and a triple crown, I'll take the pennant every time. — Carl Yastrzemski
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
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
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
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
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
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
When somebody talks about your career, most people are gonna talk about wins and losses, a World Series or pennants. But if somebody asked me how I would sum up my career I would say I had a unbelievable, fabulous career. — Jim Leyland
I don't care what the situation was, how high the stakes were - the bases could be loaded and the pennant riding on every pitch, it never bothered Whitey. He pitched his game. Cool. Craft. Nerves of steel. — Mickey Mantle
Public opinion is the pennant on a nation's mast which shows the politician and the editor how to trim the sails. — Austin O'Malley
There can be no reconciliation where there is no open warfare. There must be a battle, a brave boisterous battle, with pennants waving and cannon roaring, before there can be peaceful treaties and enthusiastic shaking of hands. — Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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
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
I believe there are certain things that cannot be bought -- loyalty, friendship, health, love and an American League pennant. — Edward Bennett Williams
I never wanted all this hoopla. All I wanted was to be a good ball player and hit twenty-five or thirty homers, drive in a hundred runs, hit .280 and help my club win pennants. I just wanted to be one of the guys, an average player having a good season. — Roger Maris
To Yossarian, the idea of pennants as prizes was absurd. No money went with them, no class privileges. Like Olympic medals and tennis trophies, all they signified was that the owner had done something of no benefit to anyone more capably than everyone else. — Joseph Heller
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
There was a point at which I thought I'd never get the most valuable player, especially the years I played at Minnesota. We never won a pennant there, we were far away from the big media centers of Los Angeles and New York, and I wasn't a flashy power hitter but a guy who hit to spots, who bunted and stole bases. — Rod Carew
The .350 hitter expects, and also deserves, a big payoff for his performance - even if he plays for a cellar-dwelling team. And a .150 hitter should get no reward - even if he plays for a pennant winner. — Warren Buffett
International friendly games are not worth the lives of the silk worms who perish to make the pennants. They do not even have the philanthropic excuse that softens the otherwise unendurable tedium of testimonial matches. Quite simply, they are rotten games staged to pick the public's pocket, tiresome red tape left over from an era when nations and players were still insular and therefore curious about each other's potential. — Danny Baker
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
We should have won the pennant that year. It was the best club I was ever on. — Jimmy Piersall
I don’t know. But it’s my option. I don’t want to leave Chicago. I want to be successful here. I want to help this team, like I always say, be in the pennant race… I don’t want to leave, and I don’t think I will leave. — Carlos Zambrano
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
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
There will be a time when everyone on the team is going to contribute to winning a pennant. — Joe Torre
I'd rather win a pennant than an Academy Award — Laraine Day
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
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
Why are there men and women that while they are nigh me the sunlight expands my blood? Why when they leave me do my pennants of joy sink flat and lank? — Walt Whitman
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
But the last time the Cubs won a National League pennant
Was the year we dropped the bomb on Japan — Steve Goodman
Initially, it (winning the 1967 American League Pennant) was what you would dream about in Little League. The winning pitcher, being on the mound to win the pennant, everyone congratulating me. But a few minutes later, you realize you're not going where you want to go. I was trying to get back in the dugout. Thank God for the Boston police, they were able to control the crowd. It was delirium. — Jim Lonborg
Baseball is caring. Player and fan alike must care, or there is no game. If there's no game, there's no pennant race and no World Series. And for all any of us know there might soon be no nation at all. It is good to care - in any dimension. More Americans put their caring into baseball than into anything else I can think of - and most put at least a little of it there. Baseball can be trusted, as great art can, and bad art can't. — William Saroyan
The train skimmed on softly, slithering, black pennants fluttering, black confetti lost on its own sick-sweet candy wind, down the hill, with the two boys pursuing, the air was so cold they ate ice cream with each breath. — Ray Bradbury
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