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

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" 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. "

" 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. "

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

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

" The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart. "

" I don't want to spend my whole life watching the sun go down behind the left field bleachers. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" Bad ballplayers make good managers. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings. "

" 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. "

" A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him. "

" Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July. "

" 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. "

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

" 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. "

" I think the National League has better biorhythms in July. "

" 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. "

" I think there should be bad blood between all clubs. "