Top 37 Dusty Baker Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Dusty Baker

#1. I lay a lot of blame at the feet of Dusty Baker for not being more strict about fundamentals, which I think would give the team a stronger day-to-day identity.

Billy Corgan

#2. On-base percentage is great if you can score runs and do something with that on-base percentage. Clogging up the bases isn't that great to me. The problem we have to address more than anything is the home run problem.

Dusty Baker

#3. You are surprised at your imperfections,
why? I should infer from that, that your self-knowledge is small. Surely you might rather be astonished that you do not fall into more frequent and more grievous faults, and thank God for His upholding grace.

Jean Grou

#4. Managers are never 100 percent in control. You're at the mercy of the players. When you're a player, you're driving. I'm the navigator. I hardly ever think about driving anymore, unless there's two out in the bottom of the ninth.

Dusty Baker

#5. The fundamentals of baseball haven't changed, but how we can teach those fundamentals has. With an e-book, learning can be more rewarding and fun.

Dusty Baker

#6. So I let them be responsible for there particular areas. Then by the time it gets to me that means that there is a problem. I have my eyes open and I need to know something about every department but you don't want to micro manage any particular department.

Dusty Baker

#7. I'm so secluded. Very alone.

Yves Saint-Laurent

#8. I have a lot of interests.

Dusty Baker

#9. I'll never love anyone like I love him, and I'll always be his whether I'm with him or not.

Samantha Towle

#10. Prayer is a many fingered
and kaleidoscopic thing - it folds
and unfolds inside of you. It enters
the many rooms you cannot enter.

Cecilia Llompart

#11. The only people I ever felt intimidated by in my whole life were Bob Gibson and my Daddy.

Dusty Baker

#12. When ordinary people decide to do extraordinary things they transform their lives and the lives of others around them.

Oprah Winfrey

#13. I'm a strong man, and usually I get over hurts and it makes me stronger when I come back.

Dusty Baker

#14. It's like fishing
you got to get that first one in the boat. Once you get that first one, the skunk is off the boat and everything's cool from then on. You've got to get that first one. Once he gets the first one, I know he'll be fine.

Dusty Baker

#15. That's the reality of it. Everybody has a big two or three. The health of those big two or three ... there's a lot riding on it.

Dusty Baker

#16. I'm not a guy that sits around and does nothing.

Dusty Baker

#17. If these the Times, then this must be the Man.
[Andrew Marvell on Oliver Cromwell]

Andrew Marvell

#18. You don't want to get beat, number one, and you hate getting shutout, number two, and even worse, no hits.

Dusty Baker

#19. I love sharing my knowledge of hitting with others. Now coaches and players at all levels can learn my systematic approach to hitting a baseball with more consistency, mental strength and accuracy.

Dusty Baker

#20. Being me has its privledges.

Stephenie Meyer

#21. I love my daughter, but she had me on couscous and fixed me pastas and made me eat oatmeal every morning and what else, turkey burgers, turkey bacon, and that kind of stuff. So she wants her dad to live a long time, and I do, too.

Dusty Baker

#22. I think we match up with anybody because our pitching. In a short series you run your big three out there or four out there. That generally is what wins a series - pitching and defense. If we can catch the ball and not give away any runs like we do sometimes.

Dusty Baker

#23. We call our selves followers but we refuse to follow him to the Unreached. We call ourselves Christians but refuse to lay down our life as he did that they might have life. We sing songs for him with our lips but deny him with our lives

John Willis Zumwalt

#24. The only thing that's in my control is to win ballgames and God is always taking care of me.

Dusty Baker

#25. The speed of the fleet is not determined by the fastest vessel; rather it is determined by the slowest one.

Wen Jiabao

#26. Let them police themselves, and then it goes another step past them to my coaches and there a coach that is responsible for a different area and different category on the field.

Dusty Baker

#27. Everyone has a budget, I don't care who you are. But they said if we are in a pennant race in the middle of the summer they are going to get some help with added payroll.

Dusty Baker

#28. Many people think that crying is a sign of weakness, they're wrong - it is a sign of healing.

Louise Suzanne Boyd

#29. You can tell your uncle stuff that you could not tell your dad. That is kind of the role of an uncle. I feel very much like a father sometimes but sometimes I feel like a teammate.

Dusty Baker

#30. Man is the only one that knows nothing, that can learn nothing without being taught. He can neither speak nor walk nor eat, and in short he can do nothing at the prompting of nature only, but weep.

Pliny The Elder

#31. I think walks are overrated unless you can run ... If you get a walk and put the pitcher in a stretch, that helps. But the guy who walks and can't run, most of the time they're clogging up the bases for somebody who can run.

Dusty Baker