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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching. "

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

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" Bad ballplayers make good managers. "

" I think the National League has better biorhythms in July. "

" This ain't a football game, we do this every day. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings. "

" 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. "

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

" A manager wins games in the winter when he picks his team. "

" A manager has to convince his hitters that they have to get on base for the next guy and that no player can do it by himself. Sometimes that isn't easy. In the playoffs, you can get into trouble because everybody wants to be a hero. "

" I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one. "

" The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field. "

" A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

" 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. "