Top 26 Gene Mauch Quotes
#1. The worst thing is the day you realize you want to win more than the players do.
Gene Mauch
#2. He (Gaylord Perry) should be in the Hall of Fame with a tube of KY jelly attached to his plaque.
Gene Mauch
#3. I'm not the manager because I'm always right, but I'm always right because I'm the manager.
Gene Mauch
#4. I was in Deadwood at the time and on hearing of the killing made my way at once to the scene of the shooting and found that my friend had been killed by McCall.
Calamity Jane
#5. He (Sandy Koufax) throws a 'radio ball,' a pitch you hear, but you don't see.
Gene Mauch
#6. This idea of trying to repeat a success doesn't interest me. It's only really done to make money.
Agnetha Faltskog
#7. Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking.
Gene Mauch
#8. I have an amazing ability to forget.
Gene Mauch
#9. You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.
Jerry Seinfeld
#10. I want everybody to feel he has a chance to get into a game when he comes to the ballpark. I play guys when I want to so they'll be ready when I have to. I don't consider myself a motivator of players. I think it's an insult to a ballplayer to have to be motivated.
Gene Mauch
#11. He (Don Drysdale) talks very well for a guy who's had two fingers in his mouth all his life.
Gene Mauch
#13. If a man has gold, he lives with the terror that someone will take it away from him, so he builds walls around it. Then everyone knows where the gold is, so they come and take it. That's the way it always goes, brother. Fools and gold, together.
Conn Iggulden
#14. Never forget that children are at the heart of everything we do. Respect them, listen to them, talk to them as equals, and care about them.
Anthony Browne
#15. Sun Microsystems had the right people to make Java into a first-class language, and I believe it was the Sun marketing people who rushed the thing out before it should have gotten out.
Alan Kay
#16. There should be a new way to record standings in this league; one column for wins, one for losses and one for gifts.
Gene Mauch
#17. Play him, fine him, and play him again.
Gene Mauch
#18. You can't lead anyone else further than you have gone yourself.
Gene Mauch
#19. You have to bear in mind that Mr. Autry's favorite horse was named Champion. He ain't ever had one called Runner Up.
Gene Mauch
#20. There is no meaning if meaning is not shared, and not because there would be an ultimate or first signification that all beings have in common, but because meaning is itself the sharing of Being.
Jean-Luc Nancy
#21. Most one run games are lost, not won.
Gene Mauch
#22. Baseball and malaria keep coming back.
Gene Mauch
#23. The first guy who lays a finger on this blind old man is fined fifty bucks!
Gene Mauch
#24. We believed in a good God, a bad Devil, and a hot Hell, and more than anything else we believed that same God did not intend man should ever fly.
David McCullough
#26. The wish to acquire is no doubt a natural and common sentiment, and when men attempt things within their power, they will always be praised rather than blamed. But when they persist in attempts that are beyond their power, mishaps and blame ensue.
Niccolo Machiavelli
