Whitey Herzog Quotes

• I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

  Whitey Herzog

  Sports, Dog, Player

  Whitey Herzog, Kevin Horrigan (1988). “White Rat: A Life in Baseball”, HarperCollins

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• Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

  Whitey Herzog

  Sports, Baseball, Play

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• If I managed the Cubs, I'd be an alcoholic.

  Whitey Herzog

  Cubs, Alcoholics, Ifs

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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 you want him to figure you figure.

  Whitey Herzog

  Want, Way, Slick

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• We need three kinds of pitching: left-handed, right-handed and relief.

  Whitey Herzog

  Relief, Three, Needs

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• If you don't have outstanding relief pitching, you might as well piss on the fire and call the dogs.

  Whitey Herzog

  Dog, Fire, Relief

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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 a graveyard with lights.

  Whitey Herzog

  Thank You, Night, Light

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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. I came back to the bench and Casey [Stengel] said, 'next time, tra-la-la.' I didn't know what tra-la-la meant, but next time up, I hit a line drive, right into a double play. When I sat down, Casey came over and said, 'Like I told you, tra-la-la.'

  Whitey Herzog

  Running, Spring, Curves

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• We need just two players to be a contender. Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

  Whitey Herzog

  Baseball, Player, Two

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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 January, and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms.

  Whitey Herzog

  Sports, Struggle, Sweat

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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 be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through.

  Whitey Herzog

  Team, Keys, Two

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• What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed.

  Whitey Herzog

  Sports, Should Have, Play

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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 three years.

  Whitey Herzog

  Sports, Stars, Winning

  Whitey Herzog, Kevin Horrigan (1988). “White Rat: A Life in Baseball”, HarperCollins

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• For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.

  Whitey Herzog

  Smart, Book, Tough

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• I'd rather go fishing for three years.

  Whitey Herzog

  Years, Fishing, Three

  Whitey Herzog, Kevin Horrigan (1988). “White Rat: A Life in Baseball”, HarperCollins

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• The way we have been playing, I might tell my players not to cross the picket line (umpire strike of 1979).

  Whitey Herzog

  Player, Umpires, Lines

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