Baseball Quote by Casey Stengel

A manager's job in baseball, more than any other sport, is managing people.

— John Smoltz

Managing is not running, hitting, or stealing. Managing is getting your players to put out one hundred percent year after year.

— Sparky Anderson

A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

— Sparky Anderson

Hitters get paid a lot of money to hit. Let's face it, man, sometimes they just do.

— Andy Pettitte

Why certainly I'd like to have that fellow who hits a home run every time at bat, who strikes out every opposing batter when…

— Danny Murtaugh

Not that managing in the American League is easy, but this is certainly different. I'll have to have somebody poke me in the rear…

— Joe Torre

Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players, and you keep them in the right frame of mind, the manager is a…

— Sparky Anderson

If you're playing baseball and thinking about managing, you're crazy. You'd be better off thinking about being an owner.

— Casey Stengel

Your job as a baseball player is to come to the park ready to play every day, and the manager, it's his job to…

— Cal Ripken, Jr

That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.

— Rollie Fingers

It is the nature of being the general manager of a baseball team that you have to remain on familiar terms with people you…

— Michael Lewis

'Get up and hit a home run,' has never been a part of the usable technique of any manager.

— Heywood Broun