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" I learned a lot in the Minor Leagues, spending six years there. I honed my skills, as far as coaching goes. I was able to work with the players in a lot of facets of the game. "

Ryne Sandberg

Skills

Years

Work

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Ryne Sandberg

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" Get your work in. Work hard at it. Give it your best effort. And if you get an opportunity, be ready for it. That's respect for the game. "

" When I was a minor league player, my goal was to be a major leaguer. It's no different as a minor league manager. "

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Ryne Sandberg

Important

Proud

" Typically, a position change is more for instructional league and winter time. It's just a more relaxed situation. A player can make some mistakes and learn from them. That's the proper way to go about a position change, for me. "

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" I'd rather play a double-header than speak at a banquet, and if I went to Wrigley Field knowing I had to be somewhere two hours after the game, it would bother me all day. "

" For me, the game starts with starting pitching. "

Ryne Sandberg

Pitching

Game

" I was a baseball player at North Central High School in Spokane, Washington even though I was all-city in basketball, even when I signed a letter of intent to play quarterback at Washington State. "

" You want to see energy, and you want to see guys on the same page. You want guys to work together and have that energy come out onto the field. That's a good place to start. "

" When we went home every winter, they warned us not to lift heavy weights because they didn't want us to lose flexibility. They wanted us to be baseball players, not only home run hitters. "

" I've been in baseball my whole life, so I understand there's a lot in baseball that is out of your control, and you have to focus on the things you can control. "

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" There were a lot of players who worked just as hard as I did, and if you didn't, you didn't stay in the big leagues. "

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" I'm not a sportswriter. I don't get to vote. I don't get the ballot in the mail, so it's out of my hands either way. I can say that in the history of the Hall of Fame, there are no suspicions about guys who are in the Hall of Fame. "