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" A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him. "

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" I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball. "

" Most of the umpires, it's amazing: 98 percent of them will not hold a grudge. I always felt a couple of them did. I never wanted to argue with an umpire in my life. "

" Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time. "

" I used to be a pretty good hit-and-run man when I played in the minors. I handled the bat well and could hit the ball to the right side of the infield. Nevertheless, I know that you often give the opposition an out on the hit-and-run play. "

" I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you? "

" If an umpire misses a called third strike and the other side ends up scoring because of it, I'm not going to forget it. If there are runners on second and third and two out, and if the umpire has just given the hitter an extra strike and the next pitch goes into the hole and both runs score, I've got to say something to the guy. "

" Judging ballplayers and turning in reports, giving my opinion of who will get to the big leagues and who will not... I think my baseball judgment was really good. "

" There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you're making everything harder for yourself. "

" Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July. "

" The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers. "

" On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.' "

" The worst thing about being on the road is all you want to do when you get home is to stay home, but as soon as you get back, all the wife wants to do is go out because she's been stuck home all the time you've been stuck on the road. "

" What else does a manager do but push buttons? He doesn't hit, he doesn't run, he doesn't throw, and he doesn't catch the ball. A manager has twenty-five players, or twenty-five buttons, and he selects which one he'll use, or push, that day. The manager who presses the right buttons most often is the one who wins the most games. "

" I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers. "

" To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them. "

" You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents. "

" The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job. "

" The Orioles made me. I didn't make the Orioles. "

" No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March. "

" There ain't no genius here. Strategy in baseball is overrated. People say, 'That Weaver, he plays for the long ball too much.' You bet I do. Hit 'em out. Then I got no worry about somebody lousing up a bunt, I got no worry about the hit and run - and that's really overrated - I got no worry about base-running errors. And I can't screw it up myself. "

" When you play for one run, that's usually all you get. I have nothing against the bunt in its place, but most of the time, that place is in the bottom of a long-forgotten closet. "

" Don't play for one run unless you know that run will win a ballgame. "

" The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit. "

" The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat. "

" Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs. "

" In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs. "

" A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me. "

" You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and five the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all. "

" Until you're the person that other people fall back on, until you're the one that's leaned on, not the person doing the leaning, you're not an adult. "