Top 19 Terry Francona Quotes
#1. It's hard to be a clubhouse guy without being a great guy. I mean, the nature of the job is, you know, you're picking up dirty clothes and you're doing all the tasks that the players - that nobody else wants to do.
#2. In Boston I got to a point where I thought I was putting out fires more than being a baseball coach. And some of it was my fault. I was getting stubborn. My fuse was a little shorter than it needed to be. And that helps nobody.
#3. I thought, 'OK, I'm done here. I'll take responsibility and go away.' Little did I know I was going to be going away limping because someone cut my legs out from under me.
#4. I didn't want my next U.S. senator to be someone who was going to go up there and do the same stuff people have been doing. But I guess our argument is it's okay to be angry and upset at Washington.
#5. She was a sleuth and sleuths had to follow rules. 'Get to the point; don't allow the subject to digress' was one of them
#6. I think in any organization you want your manager to have a strong opinion. You don't want them to just say, 'Yes, sir' to things they don't believe in.
#7. One of the most beautiful gifts in the world is the gift of encouragement. When someone encourages you, that person helps you over a threshold you might otherwise never have crossed on your own.
#8. You can be true to the character all you want but you've got to go home with yourself.
#9. I think the outside world can learn a lot about how to act by watching a major league clubhouse. I don't think you want to do everything the same, but there's a lot of things I think people could learn from.
#10. the shoulder I built up in Japan. Since I came to the major leagues, I couldn't train my own way, so now I've lost all those savings." Farrell
#11. There's so much passion and so much interest in the Red Sox in Boston.
#12. Begin to trust God.
#13. As a manager, the more consistent you are, the better off you are. It's easy to be up when things go well. When things don't go well, the players will follow your lead. So you have to be consistent and upbeat, which takes some work sometimes.
#14. Once players have my trust, they have it.
#15. Sometimes you've got to be a little flexible. For the most part, it's hard to get players to look at the big picture also. I understand that. They're looking at their next start or their next at-bat.
#16. I like information. I love when smart people make me think of something in a new way.
#17. What I don't want to do is go out there and not be able to mean it, you know?
#18. When you get old, it's hard to tell what's memory and what you've kind of created in your head as memory, you know?
#19. You get to the ninth inning and your stomach is clear up to here. But it's not because of your job. It is because you want to win so badly.
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