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" Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game. "
Earl Weaver
Pitching
Win
Game
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" A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him. "
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" 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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" 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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" A manager wins games in the winter when he picks his team. "
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Winter
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" I think the National League has better biorhythms in July. "
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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. "
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Man
Baseball
Chance
" 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
" You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents. "
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Free
Build
You
" Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs. "
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Most
Your
Precious
" In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs. "
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Run
Mind
Because
" 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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Right
Push
Day
" 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. "
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Organization
Job
You
" 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
" 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
" 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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Fire
Others
Thinking
" Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher. "
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Momentum
Day
Next
" 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 had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one. "
Earl Weaver
Fame
Had
Hall
" 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
" 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
" If an umpire misses a called third strike and the other side ends up scoring because of it, I'm not going to forget it. If there are runners on second and third and two out, and if the umpire has just given the hitter an extra strike and the next pitch goes into the hole and both runs score, I've got to say something to the guy. "
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Two
Say
Got
" 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
" Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players. "
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Team
Good
Players
" I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you? "
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You
More
" I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball. "
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Belief
Important
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Give
March
You
" 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