Years I Managed Quotes by Earl Weaver

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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…
• 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…
• 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…
• Economics played a role. Raleighs have gone from six fifty to nine dollars a carton, but there's a three-quarter cent coupon on…
• 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.

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