John McGraw Quotes

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• You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?
• Get in front of the ball, you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for, young man.
• I think we can win it if my brain holds out.
• One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.
• One small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.
• He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him.
• I name (Honus) Wagner first on my list, not only because he was a great batting champion and base-runner, and also baseball's foremost shortstop, but…
• In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill…
• No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can…
• The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head.
• The team that gets off to a good start wins pennants.
• With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.
• If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to…
• Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his…
• Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.
• There is but one game and that game is baseball.
• Cobb would have to play center field on my all time team. But where would that put Speaker? In left. If I had them both,…
• My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.
• Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.

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