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" I think the National League has better biorhythms in July. "
Earl Weaver
July
Better
Think
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" 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. "
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" 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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" On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.' "
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Just
Loser
" 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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Worry
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" Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher. "
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Day
Next
" Don't play for one run unless you know that run will win a ballgame. "
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Run
Play
" Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players. "
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Good
Players
" 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. "
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You
Easy
Guy
" 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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Others
Thinking
" 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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Lose
Nobody
" 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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My Life
Good
Heart
" I think there should be bad blood between all clubs. "
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Bad
Should
I Think
" I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else. "
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Being
Games
Going
" The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job. "
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Love
Step
Guy
" 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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Dying
People
Sunday
" The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers. "
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Key
Run
" A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him. "
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Done
Him
Manager
" 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
" 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
" 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. "
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Home
You
Wife
" The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat. "
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Swing
Way
Bat
" 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
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Belief
Important
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Mind
Because
" No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March. "
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Give
March
You
" I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings. "
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Like
People
Tired
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First
Ball
Before
" 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. "
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Said
Me
Far Away
" 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. "
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Place
You
Time