Chuck Tanner Quotes

#1. [On working with James Joyce:] So, either you run your publishing business far away, where your writer can't get at it, or you publish right alongside of him - and have much more fun - and much more expense.

Sylvia Beach

#2. I don't think a manager should be judged by whether he wins the pennant, but by whether he gets the most out of the twenty-five men he's been given.

Chuck Tanner

#3. My emotional investment started when I read the first scene of the actual drama [45 Years]. I can't explain it, there's no logic to it, but the notion of one's youth that somehow comes back but is gone, a man of my age connecting to that timing of life.

Tom Courtenay

#4. There are three secrets to managing. The first secret is have patience. The second is be patient. And the third most important secret is patience.

Chuck Tanner

#5. You can have money piled to the ceiling but the size of your funeral is still going to depend on the weather.

Chuck Tanner

#6. What you have to remember is that baseball isn't a week or a month but a season - and a season is a long time.

Chuck Tanner

#7. You are what you think about all day long.

Robert H. Schuller

#8. What attracts me is elsewhere, and I don't know what that elsewhere is.

Emil Cioran

#9. If you don't like the way the Atlanta Braves are playing then you don't like baseball.

Chuck Tanner

#10. Having Willie Stargell on your ball club is like having a diamond ring on your finger.

Chuck Tanner

#11. My wife collects knickknacks.

Sidney Poitier

#12. Our efforts to disconnect ourselves from our own suffering end up disconnecting our suffering from God's suffering for us. The way out of our loss and hurt is in and through.

Henri Nouwen

#13. Character is capital for your destiny.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#14. There is no failure, just the gradual process of success.

Ilchi Lee

#15. He felt the power but it meant less to him somehow.

Danielle Paige

#16. The greatest feeling in the world is to win a major league game. The second-greatest feeling is to lose a major league game.

Chuck Tanner

#17. Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.

Ken Rockwell

#18. It's hard to win a pennant, but it's harder to lose one.

Chuck Tanner

#19. It doesn't matter if I failed. At least I passed the concept on to others. Even if I don't succeed, someone will succeed.

Jack Ma

#20. I cannot expect people to do for me what I cannot.

Liz Braswell

#21. It's not your enemies who condemn you to solitude, it's your friends

Milan Kundera