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" The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field. "
Earl Weaver
Only
Middle
Matters
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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" 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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" You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents. "
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" Bad ballplayers make good managers. "
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" 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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" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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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Play
You
More
" Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher. "
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Momentum
Day
Next
" 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
" 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
" 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
" 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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Life
My Life
Never
" 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
" The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job. "
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Step
Guy
" In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs. "
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Mind
Because
" Judging ballplayers and turning in reports, giving my opinion of who will get to the big leagues and who will not... I think my baseball judgment was really good. "
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Think
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" I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one. "
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Had
Hall
" 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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" A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him. "
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" I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball. "
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Belief
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" 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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Job
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
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