Top 33 John Mcgraw Quotes
#1. There has been only one manager, and his name is John McGraw.
Connie Mack
#2. Remember the point of Christianity isn't to learn a lot of truths so you don't need God anymore.
Paul E. Miller
#4. To die is nothing. One is here, one is no longer here. It is only at the end one must be able to say 'I was a man'.
Louis L'Amour
#5. Voting is proof that gullibility has been certified as a public virtue.
ABifarelli
#7. Why shouldn't we pitch to Babe Ruth? We pitch to better hitters in the National League.
John McGraw
#8. The key to success is to stay clean at all times.
DJ Khaled
#9. You think the greatest thing in the whole world would be to become a baseball player - if best things already happened, what's next?
John McGraw
#10. The way to get a ball past (Honus) Wagner is to hit it eight feet over his head.
John McGraw
#11. One percent of ballplayers are leaders of men. The other 99 percent are followers of women.
John McGraw
#12. With my team I am an absolute czar. My men know it. I order plays and they obey. If the don't, I fine them.
John McGraw
#13. An innate gift and a certain amount of intelligence are important, but what really pays is ordinary experience.
Malcolm Gladwell
#14. Sportsmanship and easygoing methods are all right, but it is the prospect of a hot fight that brings out the crowds.
John McGraw
#15. (Bill) Terry, you can ask for more money in the winter and do less in the summer than any ballplayer I know.
John McGraw
#16. Hell is absolute isolation in every sense of the word.
John G. Mcgraw
#17. Learn to know every man under you, get under his skin, know his faults. Then cater to him - with kindness or roughness as his case may demand.
John McGraw
#18. In playing or managing, the game of ball is only fun for me when I'm out in front and winning. I don't give a hill of beans for the rest of the game.
John McGraw
#19. One of the most memorable live performances of my career took place on the 2002 American Music Awards show when I had to the opportunity to sing with Elton John. I was moved by the way he played the piano onstage.
Tim McGraw
#20. My boy, one small breeze doesn't make a wind storm.
John McGraw
#21. The boy's (Hack Wilson) got talent and desire, but he ain't got no neck.
John McGraw
#22. When someone does not know how to handle his own suffering, one allows it to spill all over the people around him or her. When you suffer, you make people around you suffer. That's very natural. This is why we have to learn how to handle our suffering, so we won't spread it everywhere.
Nhat Hanh
#23. I think we can win it if my brain holds out.
John McGraw
#24. If I had to pick the greatest team player in baseball today-and I have some of the greats on my own club-I would have to pick Pie Traynor.
John McGraw
#25. She wished she could give Isabel a shield, like the ones riot police held, to protect her from male attention, that feeling of being scored each time you walked down a street, the demeaning comments yelled out of cars, that casual sweep of the eyes.
Liane Moriarty
#26. He (Honus Wagner) was the nearest thing to a perfect player no matter where his manager chose to play him.
John McGraw
#27. With a pen in my hand I have successfully stormed bulwarks from which others armed with sword and excommunication have been repulsed.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#28. Get in front of the ball, you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for, young man.
John McGraw
#29. The team that gets off to a good start wins pennants.
John McGraw
#30. Cobb would have to play center field on my all time team. But where would that put Speaker? In left. If I had them both, I would certainly play them that way.
John McGraw
#31. There is but one game and that game is baseball.
John McGraw
#32. No club that wins a pennant once is an outstanding club. One which bunches two pennants is a good club. But a team which can win three in a row really achieves greatness.
John McGraw
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