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" I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else. "
Earl Weaver
Being
Games
Going
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" I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one. "
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" The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart. "
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" 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. "
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" Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players. "
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" People always make a lot about how I don't carry grudges. That's my religious upbringing. I went nine years without missing Sunday school. Lutheran. I can't live with hatred inside of me. That's what I learned. I ain't scared of dying, either. "
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" 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. "
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Push
Day
" Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher. "
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Day
Next
" Bad ballplayers make good managers. "
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Good
" 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. "
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Doing
People
You
" I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball. "
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Baseball
Belief
Important
" The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit. "
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First
Ball
Before
" This ain't a football game, we do this every day. "
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Day
Every Day
Game
" Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game. "
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Pitching
Win
Game
" The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field. "
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Only
Middle
Matters
" There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you're making everything harder for yourself. "
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Away
Yourself
You
" In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game. "
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Man
Baseball
Chance
" A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him. "
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Done
Him
Manager
" 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. "
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People
Worry
Run
" The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit. "
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Step
Key
Left
" I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers. "
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Want
Watching
Behind
" 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. "
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Work
Time
Baseball
" Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching. "
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Win Or Lose
Lose
Nobody
" 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. "
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You
Good
Know
" A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year. "
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Nothing
Year
Losing
" The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game. "
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Job
Hurt
" Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July. "
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Fans
Start
Booing
" I think there should be bad blood between all clubs. "
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Bad
Should
I Think