Quotes About Baseball Managers

#1. If we love our fellow humans, we cannot limit our insight and our love only to others as individuals ... We have to be political people, I would even say passionately involved political people, each of us in the way that best suits our own temperaments, our working lives, and our own capabilities.

Erich Fromm

#2. He foresaw the platooning that managers like Casey Stengel used years before it happened. He told me I had to be a switch-hitter if I was going to play.

Mickey Mantle

#3. The reason for leaving sometimes is to return. Simply to return.

Yrsa Daley-Ward

#4. Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.

Edward Abbey

#5. That's all baseball is, is numbers; it's run by numbers, averages, percentage and odds. Managers make their decisions based on the numbers.

Rollie Fingers

#6. Simplicity, not cleverness, can be the source of happiness.

Debasish Mridha

#7. You'll never please everyone, but you only have to please a few people to get an offer.

Harvey MacKay

#8. You will be pleased to know I stand obediently for the national anthem, though of course I would defend your right to remain seated should you so decide.

Ira Glasser

#9. In a tradition second in wonderful absurdity only to 60-year-old baseball managers wearing uniforms and spikes in the dugout, golf spectators come dressed ready to play 18.

Willie Geist

#10. Why are baseball managers the only coaches who dress up like the players?

Jay Mohr

#11. He continued his tragic story. During the next five years I saw Shirley occasionally. She was flourishing. War has that effect sometimes. The unusual circumstances bring out the best in some people.

Jennifer Worth

#12. Baseball is the only sport that lets the managers and coaches go out onto the field and rant and rave

Durwood Merrill

#13. Philosophy cannot raise the commonalty up to her level: so, if she is to become popular, she must sink to theirs.

Augustus William Hare

#14. Bad ballplayers make good managers, not the other way around. All I can do is help them be as good as they are.

Earl Weaver

#15. Sometimes I think your life and mine are under the protection of some supreme being or fate , because, after many years of parallel thought, we find ourselves in the positions we now occupy.

George S. Patton