Whitey Herzog Quotes
18 quotes
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Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is…
Asked
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Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.
Baseball
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We need just two players to be a contender. Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.
Babe
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We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief.
Handed
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The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for…
All
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What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed.
Counts
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If you don't have outstanding relief pitching, you might as well piss on the fire and call the dogs.
Call
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The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could…
Acquisition
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You sweat out the free agent thing in November, then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in…
Agent
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A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what…
Figure
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If I managed the Cubs, I'd be an alcoholic.
Alcoholic
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One time in spring training, we had the hit-and-run on, and Carl Erskine threw me a curve and I struck out into a double play.…
Bench
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I'd rather go fishing for three years.
Fishing
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I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.
Buddy
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The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.
Fired
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We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.
Babe
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