Baseball Managers Quotes

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

  Sparky Anderson

  Player, Way, Managers

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  There are three types of baseball players: Those who make it happen, those who watch it happen and those who wonder what happens.

  Tommy Lasorda

  Inspirational, Motivational, Success

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

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• One of the beautiful things about baseball is that every once in a while you come into a situation where you want to, and where you have to, reach down and prove something.

  Nolan Ryan

  Beautiful, Baseball, Want

  Nolan Ryan (1990). “Throwing Heat: The Autobiography of Nolan Ryan”, Avon Books

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• Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.

  Yogi Berra

  Baseball, Yankees, League

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• Never permit the pressure to exceed the pleasure.

  Joe Maddon

  Baseball, Pressure, Pleasure

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• In baseball, you don't know nothing.

  Yogi Berra

  Sports, Baseball, Yankees

  Yogi Berra (2001). “When You Come to a Fork in the Road, Take It!: Inspiration and Wisdom from One of Baseball's Greatest Heroes”

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• I'd walk through hell in a gasoline suit to play baseball.

  Pete Rose

  Sports, Baseball, Mlb

  Pete Rose, Rick Hill (2004). “My Prison Without Bars”, p.69, Rodale

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• I never questioned the integrity of an umpire. Their eyesight, yes.

  Leo Durocher

  Inspirational, Motivational, Baseball

  Nice Guys Finish Last bk. 1 (1975)

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• It ain't like football. You can't make up no trick plays.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Football

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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?

  Sparky Anderson

  Sports, Believe, Winning

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• A baseball manager is a necessary evil.

  Sparky Anderson

  Baseball, Evil, Sports Psychology

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• He hits from both sides of the plate. He's amphibious.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Yankees

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• Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?

  Jay Mohr

  Baseball, Player, Dresses

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  Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.

  Babe Ruth

  Baseball, Motivational Sports, Games

  Babe Ruth, Bob Considine (1948). “The Babe Ruth story as told to Bob Considine: with 49 photos”

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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.

  Sparky Anderson

  Respect, Player, Doe

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• Half the lies they tell about me aren't true.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Sports, Lying

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• Luck is the great stabilizer in baseball.

  Tris Speaker

  Baseball, Luck, Tris

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

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• There is no room in baseball for discrimination. It is our national pastime and a game for all.

  Lou Gehrig

  Sports, Baseball, Games

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

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• If I'd just tried for them dinky singles I could've batted around .600.

  Babe Ruth

  Sports, Baseball, Singles

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• A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.

  Yogi Berra

  Funny, Baseball, Money

  Yogi Berra (1998). “The Yogi Book”, p.26, Workman Publishing

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• Close don't count in baseball. Close only counts in horseshoes and grenades.

  Frank Robinson

  Sports, Baseball, Horseshoes

  Quoted in Time, 31 July 1973. Usually attributed to Robinson, but slightly earlier evidence is found in the Guthrian (Guthrie County, Iowa), 26 Jan. 1970, which printed "Close only counts in horse shoes and grenades."

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• If my uniform doesn't get dirty, I haven't done anything in the baseball game.

  Rickey Henderson

  Baseball, Dirty, Games

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• One of the beautiful things about baseball is the history.

  Jim Abbott

  Beautiful, Baseball, Pitching

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• The key step for an infielder is the first one, but before the ball is hit.

  Earl Weaver

  Baseball, Keys, Balls

  Earl Weaver, Terry Pluto (1984). “Weaver on Strategy”, Macmillan Publishing Company

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• Baseball is almost the only orderly thing in a very unorderly world. If you get three strikes, even the best lawyer in the world can't get you off.

  Bill Veeck

  Softball, Baseball, Inspirational Sports

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

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