Best Jim Leyland Quotes

#1. I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if there's media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player.

Jim Leyland

#2. I've managed 25 years, and I can probably count on one hand players that I didn't really care for, and that's probably thousands of players that I've managed. I think that's pretty good. I love the players and I always will.

Jim Leyland

#3. A curve of silver hung amid the brighter specks; it looked to me like a curved dagger, pretty but deadly, as if it might slice the sky in two.

Ann Aguirre

#4. Women ... are completely alone, though they were born and bred upon this soil, as if they belonged to another class in creation.

Herbert Croly

#5. Fifteen minutes in the majors means you're a great baseball player," said Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland - who never got his fifteen minutes above the Triple-A level. "People just can't understand how good you have to be to get there at all.

John Feinstein

#6. We need our veterans to set an example, like being the first ones there. A veteran is entitled to a bigger paycheck, but not a special set of rules.

Jim Leyland

#7. I'm second in doubles - double vodkas, double scotches.

Jim Leyland

#8. Are people happier with a smaller range of experiences?

Rob Payne

#9. I'm very comfortable in the U.S. and Europe, but I feel completely out of place in the rest of the world, mostly because I never spent time outside the U.S. and Europe until I was in my 30s.

Brad Feld

#10. You don't lead by lip service, you lead by example.

Jim Leyland

#11. My eight years in Detroit, obviously, were my most successful years managing. I think that Pittsburgh and Detroit are probably very, very similar. We kinda rekindled the fire of baseball in Pittsburgh. We did the exact same thing in Detroit.

Jim Leyland

#12. We need to have preparation to win. A disciplined team will win more close games over a period of time.

Jim Leyland

#13. If anybody says they get used to it, you don't.

Jim Leyland

#14. Great. I didn't say thank you, because it seemed wrong. I wanted to call her a bitch and shoot her between the eyes, but then I would have had to shoot Enzo, too. And how would I explain that to the police? She was breaking no laws. Dammit.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#15. Just when I think I have learned the way to live, life changes.

Hugh Prather

#16. It's well known that I interviewed with Philadelphia last winter, and I'd like to manage again,

Jim Leyland

#17. I knew we were in for a long season when we lined up for the national anthem on opening day and one of my players said, 'Every time I hear that song I have a bad game.'

Jim Leyland

#18. It takes time to get the whole package. Freshmen can't be seniors.

Jim Leyland

#19. When it's time, it's time ... and it's time.

Jim Leyland

#20. I met five presidents. I had dinner with a president of the United States in the White House. I played golf with a president of the United States. I made money. I mean, when I look at it, I had a unbelievably fabulous career. And I'm extremely grateful.

Jim Leyland

#21. You're a disgusting, shallow, womanizing jackass, and I hope that soda stains your preppy little shirt." Just before I marched away, i looked over my shoulder and added, "And my name isn't Duffy. it's Bianca. we've been in the same homeroom since middle school, you selfabsorbed son of a bitch.

Kody Keplinger

#22. Momentum is your next day's pitcher.

Jim Leyland

#23. When somebody talks about your career, most people are gonna talk about wins and losses, a World Series or pennants. But if somebody asked me how I would sum up my career, I would say I had a unbelievable, fabulous career.

Jim Leyland

#24. You're not always going to be at your best, but it better be the best you've got that day.

Jim Leyland

#25. He represented the Twins , but I think everyone in baseball felt like they were a teammate of Kirby Puckett.

Jim Leyland

#26. I been in sorrow's kitchen and done licked out all the pots. Nobody knows the trouble I seen. Steal away to Jesus. I ain't got long to stay here.

Elizabeth Alexander

#27. Withdrawal of US troops will become like salted peanuts to the American public: The more US troops come home, the more will be demanded.

Henry A. Kissinger

#28. I've said this: If Jim Leyland had been in my place, he'd have the 2,000 wins and I'd have 1,000. Leyland is the greatest.

Tony La Russa

#29. Man and wife were supposed to stay together because they'd made their vows in front of God and family.

Nicholas Sparks

#30. I had 11 years of managerial experience and four years of coaching before I managed a big-league team. To me, it was important, because I learned a lot through trial and error. And it's tough to have to go through trial and error when you're a big-league manager.

Jim Leyland