Top 36 Earl Weaver Quotes

#1. I'd rather you walk with the bases loaded.

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#2. This ain't a football game, we do this every day.

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#3. It's what you learn after you know it all that counts.

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#4. I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.

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#5. Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.

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#6. You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.

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#7. Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

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#8. My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'

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#9. The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.

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#10. I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn't ask questions.

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#11. A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.

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#12. A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.

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#13. I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.

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#14. On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'

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#15. We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow.

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#16. Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.

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#17. Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher.

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#18. No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.

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#19. I gave (pitcher) Mike Cuellar more chances than I gave my first wife.

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#20. The key step for an infielder is the first one, to the left or right, but before the ball is hit.

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#21. Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.

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#22. I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.

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#23. Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.

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#24. Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score.

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#25. Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.

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#26. The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.

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#27. Economics played a role. Raleighs have gone from six fifty to nine dollars a carton, but there's a three-quarter cent coupon on the back. You can get all kinds of things with them, blenders, everything. I saved up enough one time and got Al Bumbry.

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#28. You can't sit on a lead and run a few plays into the line and just kill the clock. You've got to throw the ball over the damn plate and give the other man his chance. That's why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

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#29. Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.

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#30. I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.

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#31. In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.

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#32. Some have said that I can accept inadequacies in my players but not in umpires. That completely misses the point. I can't tolerate anyone's mistake.

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#33. The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.

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#34. If you know how to cheat, start now.

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#35. There was nothing to keep him (Cal Ripken, Jr.) from being a star in the Major Leagues. That was inevitable.

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#36. Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.

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