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

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" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher. "

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

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

" I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else. "

" 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. "

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

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players. "

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

" If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner. "