Sparky Anderson Quotes - Page 2

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Baseball Giving Running Sports Talent Team Winning

I only had a high school education and believe me, I had to cheat to get that.

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Baseball, Cheating, Believe

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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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Explaining why he was forced to cut a utility player: You just got caught in a position where you have no position.

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Cutting, Player, Justice

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If you have to choose between power and speed and it often turns out you have to make that choice, you've got to go for speed.

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Choices, Speed, Turns

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Me carrying a briefcase is like a hotdog wearing earrings.

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Sports, Sunglasses, Briefcases

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If a team is in a positive frame of mind, it will have a good attitude. If it has a good attitude, it will make a commitment to playing the game right. If it plays the game right, it will win-unless, of course, it doesn't have enough talent to win, and no manager can make goose-liver pate out of goose feathers, so why worry?

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Attitude, Team, Commitment

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I managed 26 years and found out when I retired I didn't own the game. I thought I owned it when I was managing all those years. You can climb to the top of the mountain, get down on your knees and kiss the ground, because you'll never own that mountain. That mountain is only owned by one single person, and he'll never give it up. That's the way baseball is.

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Baseball, Kissing, Years

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A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

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Baseball, Evil, Sports Psychology

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I'm beginning to see Brooks [Robinson] in my sleep. If I dropped a paper plate, he'd pick it up on one hop and throw me out at first.

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Sleep, Paper, Firsts

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They say the first World Series is the one you remember most. No, no no. I guarantee you don't remember that one because the fantasy world you always dreamed about is suddenly real.

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Sports, Real, Guarantees

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The man I marvel at is the one that's in there day after day, and night after night and still puts the figures on the board. I'm talking about Pete Rose, Stan Musial, the real stars. Believe me, especially the way we travel today, flying all night with a game the next night and then the next afternoon, if you can play one-hundred and sixty-two games, you're a man.

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Stars, Real, Believe

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Mike Laga will make you forget about every power hitter that ever lived.

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Forget, Mike

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My idea of managing is giving the ball to Tom Seaver and sitting down and watching him work.

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Sports, Ideas, Giving

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The day I got a hit off (Sandy) Koufax was when he knew it was all over.

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Sandy

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The only reason I'm coming out here tomorrow is the schedule says I have to.

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Sports, Schedules, Tomorrow

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We're the best team in baseball, but not by much.

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Sports, Baseball, Team

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Pete Rose is baseball.

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Baseball, Rose

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Our pitching could be better than I think it will be.

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Baseball, Thinking, Pitching

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You're gonna lose some ball games and you're gonna win some ball games and that's about it.

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Winning, Gambling, Games

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He's (Jose Canseco) built like a Greek goddess.

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Greek, Goddess, Greek God

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The trick is to realize that after giving your best, there's nothing more to give... Win or lose the game is finished. It's over. It's time to forget and prepare for the next one.

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Motivational, Sports, Winning

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

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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.

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Respect, Player, Doe

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I don't believe a manager ever won a pennant. Casey Stengel won all those pennants with the Yankees. How many did he win with the Boston Braves and Mets?

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Sports, Believe, Winning

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Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

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Sports, Years, Limits

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

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Chris Pittaro is the best rookie I've had in 15 years.

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Years, Rookies

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Born: February 22, 1934
Died: November 4, 2010
Occupation: Baseball Manager
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