Earl Weaver Quotes

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• Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.
• I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
• I'd rather you walk with the bases loaded.
• If you know how to cheat, start now.
• I gave (pitcher) Mike Cuellar more chances than I gave my first wife.
• My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or…
• Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.
• I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.
• 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…
• Economics played a role. Raleighs have gone from six fifty to nine dollars a carton, but there's a three-quarter cent coupon on the back. You…
• Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score.
• I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn't ask questions.
• There was nothing to keep him (Cal Ripken, Jr.) from being a star in the Major Leagues. That was inevitable.
• The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
• We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow.
• Some have said that I can accept inadequacies in my players but not in umpires. That completely misses the point. I can't tolerate anyone's mistake.
• Team speed for Christ's sake. You got bleeping' bleep bleep little fleas on the bleeping' bases getting picked off, trying to steal, getting thrown out,…
• The Chinese tell time by 'The Year of the Horse' or 'The Year of the Dragon.' I tell time by 'The Year of the Back'…
• The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job. I don't welcome any challenge. I'd…
• Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.

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