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" 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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" The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job. "

" The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field. "

" Pitching keeps you in the games. Home runs win the game. "

" The key step for an infielder is the first one... but before the ball is hit. "

" 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. "

" The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers. "

" There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you're making everything harder for yourself. "

" Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching. "

" 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. "

" You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents. "

" 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. "

" I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else. "

" Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs. "

" The Orioles made me. I didn't make the Orioles. "

" 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. "

" In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit. "

" Don't play for one run unless you know that run will win a ballgame. "

" 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. "

" This ain't a football game, we do this every day. "

" The easiest way around the bases is with one swing of the bat. "

" 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. "

" I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one. "

" Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" A manager wins games in the winter when he picks his team. "