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" This ain't a football game, we do this every day. "
Earl Weaver
Day
Every Day
Game
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" In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs. "
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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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" Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game. "
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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
" I think there should be bad blood between all clubs. "
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I Think
" 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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Time
Baseball
" A manager wins games in the winter when he picks his team. "
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Winter
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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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Dying
People
Sunday
" 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
" 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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Baseball
Think
Opinion
" 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
" 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
" 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
" Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs. "
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Most
Your
Precious
" The Orioles made me. I didn't make the Orioles. "
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Make
Made
Me
" 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
" I stand by my belief that individual performances are the most important part of baseball. "
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Belief
Important
" 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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Easy
Guy
" 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
" 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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Year
Losing
" A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him. "
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Done
Him
Manager
" 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