Top 33 Quotes About Jim Leyland
#1. It's well known that I interviewed with Philadelphia last winter, and I'd like to manage again,
Jim Leyland
#2. I had 11 years of managerial experience and four years of coaching before I managed a big-league team. To me, it was important, because I learned a lot through trial and error. And it's tough to have to go through trial and error when you're a big-league manager.
Jim Leyland
#3. I've said this: If Jim Leyland had been in my place, he'd have the 2,000 wins and I'd have 1,000. Leyland is the greatest.
Tony La Russa
#4. And then there were the others, who were interested only in gold. They never found the secret. They forgot that lead, copper, and iron have their own Personal Legends to fulfill. And anyone who interferes with the Personal Legend of another thing never will discover his own." The
Paulo Coelho
#5. The exercise of the virtues is itself a crucial component of the good life for man
Alasdair MacIntyre
#6. Our most potent memories include the taste and smells of foods we enjoyed as a child in part because it reminds us of who fed us a meal.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#7. He represented the Twins , but I think everyone in baseball felt like they were a teammate of Kirby Puckett.
Jim Leyland
#8. You're not always going to be at your best, but it better be the best you've got that day.
Jim Leyland
#9. If you come to think of it, what a queer thing Life is! So unlike anything else, don't you know, if you see what I mean. At any moment you may be strolling peacefully along, and all the time Life's waiting around the corner to fetch you one.
P.G. Wodehouse
#10. When somebody talks about your career, most people are gonna talk about wins and losses, a World Series or pennants. But if somebody asked me how I would sum up my career, I would say I had a unbelievable, fabulous career.
Jim Leyland
#13. I met five presidents. I had dinner with a president of the United States in the White House. I played golf with a president of the United States. I made money. I mean, when I look at it, I had a unbelievably fabulous career. And I'm extremely grateful.
Jim Leyland
#14. When it's time, it's time ... and it's time.
Jim Leyland
#16. It takes time to get the whole package. Freshmen can't be seniors.
Jim Leyland
#17. I knew we were in for a long season when we lined up for the national anthem on opening day and one of my players said, 'Every time I hear that song I have a bad game.'
Jim Leyland
#18. He runs his hand over his face, and suddenly the cocky joker is gone, and I can see all of his shadows.
Tarryn Fisher
#19. I learned this a long time ago. If you call a guy into your office and shut the door, if there's media around, it sends up a red flag. I never wanted to embarrass a player.
Jim Leyland
#20. The key in mastering any kind of sales is switching statements about you and how great you are and what you do, to statements about them, and how great they are and how they will produce more and profit more from ownership of your product or service.
Jeffrey Gitomer
#21. If anybody says they get used to it, you don't.
Jim Leyland
#22. We need to have preparation to win. A disciplined team will win more close games over a period of time.
Jim Leyland
#23. My eight years in Detroit, obviously, were my most successful years managing. I think that Pittsburgh and Detroit are probably very, very similar. We kinda rekindled the fire of baseball in Pittsburgh. We did the exact same thing in Detroit.
Jim Leyland
#24. It is really a miracle how you have managed to be so miserable, so thirsty, when it is raining all over. You have really done the impossible! Everywhere it is light and you live in darkness. Death is nowhere and you are constantly dying; life is a benediction and you are in hell.
Osho
#25. You don't lead by lip service, you lead by example.
Jim Leyland
#26. Life is busy. There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to think about how precious and special a human life is that you only get one, and that every wasted minute is lost. You can't get it back.
Rush Limbaugh
#27. I'm second in doubles - double vodkas, double scotches.
Jim Leyland
#28. HURRICANE, n. An atmospheric demonstration once very common but now generally abandoned for the tornado and cyclone. The hurricane is still in popular use in the West Indies and is preferred by certain old- fashioned sea-captains.
Ambrose Bierce
#29. We need our veterans to set an example, like being the first ones there. A veteran is entitled to a bigger paycheck, but not a special set of rules.
Jim Leyland
#30. Fifteen minutes in the majors means you're a great baseball player," said Detroit Tigers manager Jim Leyland - who never got his fifteen minutes above the Triple-A level. "People just can't understand how good you have to be to get there at all.
John Feinstein
#31. My drawings at first were made altogether in watercolors, but they wanted softness and a great deal of finish.
John James Audubon
#32. Every job has its pros and cons. The NFL just has more of both.
Tony Danza
#33. I've managed 25 years, and I can probably count on one hand players that I didn't really care for, and that's probably thousands of players that I've managed. I think that's pretty good. I love the players and I always will.
Jim Leyland
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