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" 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. "
Earl Weaver
Manager
Job
Hurt
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" 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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" 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 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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" 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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" The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers. "
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Key
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" 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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" 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. "
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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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Want
Watching
Behind
" You must remember that anyone under 30 - especially a ballplayer - is an adolescent. I never got close to being an adult until I was 32. Even though I was married and had a son at 20, I was a kid at 32, living at home with my parents. Sure, I was a manager then. That doesn't mean you're grown up. "
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Kid
Home
Parents
" Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July. "
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Fans
Start
Booing
" No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March. "
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Give
March
You
" Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game. "
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Pitching
Win
Game
" The Orioles made me. I didn't make the Orioles. "
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Make
Made
Me
" A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him. "
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Done
Him
Manager
" 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
" 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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People
Worry
Run
" 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
" 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
" 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
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Good
Players
" 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. "
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Nothing
Year
Losing
" On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.' "
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Lived
Just
Loser
" 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
" 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
" 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
" The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit. "
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First
Ball
Before
" The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat. "
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Swing
Way
Bat