Whitey Herzog Quotes

#1. I think we carry home on our backs.

Jodi Lynn Anderson

#2. Slavery remains rife, the shackles are just different. Labels and desires have replaced the cuffs and chains.

Aisha Mirza

#3. We need just two players to be a contender. Just Babe Ruth and Sandy Koufax.

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#4. The faint sound of music filtered into the room, a welcome disruption from the agonizing silence. The soft melody comforted Haven. She relaxed as the tension left her body, but it did nothing to shut off her mind. She lay awake, listening as she stared at the clock, wishing for relief.

J.M. Darhower

#5. I'd rather go fishing for three years.

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#6. I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.

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#7. How can one come to possess great faith? Now listen, here is the answer to that: First, the blade, then the ear, then the full corn in the ear. Faith must grow by soil, moisture, and exercise.

Smith Wigglesworth

#8. For being book smart, I thought he (A. Barlett Giamatti) had a lot of street smarts, which is tough to find sometimes.

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#9. A slick way to outfigure a person is to get him figuring you figure he's figuring you're figuring he'll figure you aren't really figuring what you want him to figure you figure.

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#10. We look for visions of heaven," Oswald Chambers had written, "and we never dream that all the time God is in the commonplace things and people around us." He

Jan Karon

#11. Some people asked me if I would be interested in managing the A's. I said a definite no thank you. At night, that place is a graveyard with lights.

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#12. Baseball has been good to me since I quit trying to play it.

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#13. If you don't have outstanding relief pitching, you might as well piss on the fire and call the dogs.

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#14. What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed.

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#15. If I managed the Cubs, I'd be an alcoholic.

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#16. The rules are changed now, there's not any way to build a team today. It's just how much money you want to spend. You could be the world champions and somebody else makes a key acquisition or two and you're through.

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#17. And me having kids, with my family history? My mom: mentally ill, shot and killed her last husband. My father: six ex-wives, four heart attacks. Both of my parents think alcohol is a food group.

Christopher Titus

#18. You sweat out the free agent thing in November then you make the trades in December. Then you struggle to sign the guys left in January and in February I get down to sewing all the new numbers on the uniforms.

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#19. We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief.

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#20. The only thing bad about winning the pennant is that you have to manage the All-Star Game the next year. I'd rather go fishing for three days.

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#21. The only way to make money as a manager is to win in one place, get fired and hired somewhere else.

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#22. The way we have been playing, I might tell my players not to cross the picket line (umpire strike of 1979).

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