Winning Percentage Quotes

The only difference between a winning team and a losing team is one game. The winning team can win two out of three games...the losing team can only win one out of three.

The Yankees don't pay me to win every day, just two out of three.

You're not trying to win 100 percent of the vote. You're after 50 percent plus one. It doesn't matter if you tick off the other 49 percent.

The difference between an 8-8 team and a team that goes 12-4 is not that much, and I think we realize that.

And when you start talking about the practicality of winning a race like that - you've got to remember we're not talking about winning 51 percent of the vote. We're talking about winning 36, 37, 38 percent of the vote.

The difference between winning nineteen games and winning twenty for a pitcher is bigger than anyone out of baseball realizes. It's the same for hitters - someone who hits .300 looks back on the guy who batted .295 and says 'tough luck buddy.

I think the bottom line is wins and losses. That is probably the most important stat to look at.

The worst team in baseball's history won only 55 games. The best team ever won 110 out of 160, so you're virtually guaranteed to win 1/3 of the time and lose 1/3 of the time. The difference is the 1/3 in the middle. You don't know what bucket the game you're playing falls into, so if you're smart, you'll fight like everything for all of them.

Eighty per cent of teams who score first in matches go on to win them. But they may draw some - or occasionally lose.

Tony La Russa is considered among the best in his business. Yet nearly half the time he led his organizations into competition, they were defeated - 2,728 wins, 2,365 losses.

If you just look at the numbers, you pretty much have to get 10 wins to get into the playoffs, sometimes more than that.

We lost one (Finals), we won two and we lost another one. (We'll) take 50 percent in four years in championships any day. Obviously, we want to win all of them, but that's just the nature of the game. Not proud of the way we played (in this series).

If you win the turnover battle and the explosive play battle in the same game, you win it 98 percent of the time. Now, can you win it with only winning one and losing one? Sure, but if you lose both of 'em, you only win 2 percent of the games where that occurrence happens.

It's unbelievable, it never gets too old. The biggest goal in my career is winning Grand Slams. I don't have a great record in finals, but I'm getting closer to .500, which is nice.

If you win the turnover battle, you're gonna win more than you lose - and quite a bit more than you lose.

The No. 1 stat is wins. As a quarterback, you get evaluated on winning.

No matter how good you are, you're going to lose one-third of your games. No matter how bad you are, you're going to win one-third of your games. It's the other third that makes the difference.

The most important record is the wins record that I have.

They say baseball's a game of failure. Well, that's only true on the offensive side.

With Ajax and Liverpool, you win about 80 per cent of matches.

And then to end up with a total of 347 wins, averaging 10 regular season wins for 33 years and the best winning percentage, and I'm very proud of this, of any professional team from 1970 to 1996.

That's one of the great oddities of baseball: Success is relative. A hitter who fails 70 percent of the time at the plate is a potential member of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, and many World Championship teams lose more than 70 games during their title-winning seasons.

Managers lose more than they win until they get to the big 10 clubs; then, they start winning a bit more than they lose.

Statistics are one thing. But if you're not putting up the numbers as far as winning, they're not going to consider you for things like the MVP.

Professional golf is the only sport where, if you win 20% of the time, you're the best.