With the beginning of the 2016 World series approaching fast, here are some inspirational quotes that will get you feeling nostalgic about he end of the season.

1. " Never allow the fear of striking out keep you from playing the game" - Babe Ruth, Outfielder

2."When I play ball, I didn't play for fun... It's no pink tea and mollycoddles had better stay out . It's a contest and everything that implies, a struggle for supremacy, a survival of the fittest. " - Ty Cobb, Outfielder

3. " No game in the world is as tidy and dramatically neat as baseball, with cause and effect, crime and punishment, motive and result, so cleanly defined" - Paul Gallico, American novelist and sports writer

4. " It breaks your heart. It is designed to break your heart. The game begins in the spring when everything else begins again, and it blossoms in the summer, filling the afternoons and evenings, and then as soon as the chill rains come, it stops and leaves you to face the fall alone." - A. Bartlett Giamatti, seventh Commissioner of Major League Baseball

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Brad Pitt as Billy Beane, Moneyball

6."We just want to win. That's the bottom line. I think a lot of times people may become content with one championship or a little bit of success, but we don't really reflect on what we've done in the past. We focus on the present." - Derek Jeter, shortstop

7."Like those special afternoons in summer when you go to Yankee Stadium at two o'clock in the afternoon for an eight o'clock game. It's so big, so empty and so silent that you can almost hear the sounds that aren't there." - Ray Miller, Baseball Manager

8. "Baseball is like a poker game. Nobody wants to quit when he's losing; nobody wants you to quit when you're ahead." - Jackie Robinson, Pitcher

And to whoever loses the World Series, remember :