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" The Orioles made me. I didn't make the Orioles. "
Earl Weaver
Make
Made
Me
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" Don't play for one run unless you know that run will win a ballgame. "
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Run
Play
" 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
" A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him. "
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Done
Him
Manager
" On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.' "
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Lived
Just
Loser
" I think the National League has better biorhythms in July. "
Earl Weaver
July
Better
Think
" Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game. "
Earl Weaver
Pitching
Win
Game
" 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
" 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
" Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher. "
Earl Weaver
Momentum
Day
Next
" There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you're making everything harder for yourself. "
Earl Weaver
Away
Yourself
You
" 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. "
Earl Weaver
Man
Baseball
Chance
" 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. "
Earl Weaver
You
Good
Know
" 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. "
Earl Weaver
Doing
People
You
" 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. "
Earl Weaver
Said
Me
Far Away
" 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. "
Earl Weaver
Right
Push
Day
" 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. "
Earl Weaver
Dying
People
Sunday
" The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit. "
Earl Weaver
Step
Key
Left
" 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. "
Earl Weaver
Nothing
Year
Losing
" The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit. "
Earl Weaver
First
Ball
Before
" 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. "
Earl Weaver
Work
Time
Baseball
" 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. "
Earl Weaver
Baseball
Think
Opinion
" 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. "
Earl Weaver
Place
You
Time
" I wanted no part of losing. Why play if you can't beat the other guys more often than they beat you? "
Earl Weaver
Play
You
More
" 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. "
Earl Weaver
Man
Baseball
Chance
" I think there should be bad blood between all clubs. "
Earl Weaver
Bad
Should
I Think
" I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers. "
Earl Weaver
Want
Watching
Behind
" The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job. "
Earl Weaver
Love
Step
Guy
" You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents. "
Earl Weaver
Free
Build
You
" I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings. "
Earl Weaver
Like
People
Tired
" Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players. "
Earl Weaver
Team
Good
Players