Sparky Anderson Quotes

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• Success isn't something that just happens - success is learned, success is practiced and then it is shared.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

  Sparky Anderson, Dan Ewald (1990). “Sparky!”, Touchstone

  89 Copy quote

• People who live in the past generally are afraid to compete in the present. I've got my faults, but living in the past is not one of them. There's no future in it.

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  Volleyball, Past, People

  Sparky Anderson, Dan Ewald (1990). “Sparky!”, Prentice Hall

  63 Copy quote

• Every 24 hours the world turns over on someone who was sitting on top of it.

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  Sitting, World, Hours

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• Just give me 25 guys on the last year of their contracts; I'll win a pennant every year.

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  Sports, Baseball, Winning

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• Am I a great manager? Huh. I was blessed to have a front office that found great talent, and then I was smart enough to stay the hell out of their way.

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  Smart, Blessed, Office

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• Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players, and you keep them in the right frame of mind, the manager is a success. The players make the manager. It's never the other way. Managing is not running, hitting, or stealing. Managing is getting your players to put out one hundred percent year after year. A player does not have to like a manager and he does not have to respect a manager. All he has to do is obey the rules. Talent is one thing. Being able to go from spring to October is another. You just got caught in a position where you have no position.

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  Baseball, Running, Spring

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• The players make the manager, it's never the other way.

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  Player, Way, Baseball Managers

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• I cannot get rid of the hurt from losing, but after the last out of every loss, I must accept that there will be a tomorrow. In fact, it's more than there'll be a tomorrow, it's that I want there to be a tomorrow. That's the big difference, I want tomorrow to come.

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  Sports, Hurt, Loss

  Sparky Anderson (1991). “Sparky!”, Prentice Hall

  21 Copy quote

• If I ever find a pitcher who has heat, a good curve, and a slider, I might seriously consider marrying him, or at least proposing.

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  Sports, Baseball, Curves

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• Baseball is a simple game. If you have good players and if you keep them in the right frame of mind then the manager is a success.

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  Sports, Baseball, Simple

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• I don't want to embarrass any other catcher by comparing him to Johnny Bench.

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  Sports, Baseball, Benches

  9 Copy quote

• Inner peace is not found in things like baseball and world championships. As long as I feel I've done the best job I possibly could, I'm satisfied.

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  Leadership, Sports, Baseball

  19 Copy quote

• No manager ever won no ballgames.

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  Ballgame, Managers

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• This game has taken a lot of guys over the years who would have had to work in factories and gas stations and made them prominent people. I only had a high school education, and believe me, I had to cheat to get that. There isn't a college in the world that would have me and yet in this business you can walk into a room with millionaires, doctors, professional people and get more attention than they get. I don't know any other business where you can do that.

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  Believe, Taken, School

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• The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give.

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  Giving, Realizing, Tricks

  Sparky Anderson (1991). “Sparky!”, Prentice Hall

  13 Copy quote

• Players have two things to do. Play and keep their mouths shut.

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  Sports, Player, Two

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Problem with (John) Wockenfuss getting on base is that it takes three doubles to score him.

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  Sports, Three, Problem

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• Pete (Rose) doesn't run with celebrities and he can't stand the phonies. His big buddy in LA ain't Sinatra, it's a funny old groundskeeper.

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  Running, Rose, Phony

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• I don't know why the players make such a big fuss about sitting in the first class section of the plane. Does that mean they'll get there faster?

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  Mean, Player, Class

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• You can be whoever you want to be, you just have to want it bad enough.

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  Want, Enough, Be You

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• Good seasons start with good beginnings.

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  New Beginnings, Seasons

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• I've changed my mind about it (DH) - instead of being bad, it stinks.

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  Mind, I've Changed, Stink

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

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  Running, Player, Years

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• The great thing about baseball is when you're done, you'll only tell your grandchildren the good things. If they ask me about 1989, I'll tell them I had amnesia.

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  Baseball, Grandchildren, Grandparent

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• I understand people who boo us. It's like going to Broadway show, you pay for your tickets and expect to be entertained. When you're not, you have a right to complain.

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  Sports, People, Tickets

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