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American baseball player and manager (d. 2013), Birth: 14-8-1930, Death: 19-1-2013 Earl Weaver Quotes
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The key to winning baseball games is pitching, fundamentals, and three run homers.
Earl Weaver

2.
Do the dull things right so the extraordinary things will not be required too often.
Earl Weaver

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In baseball, you can't kill the clock. You've got to give the other man his chance. That's why this is the greatest game.
Earl Weaver

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On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
Earl Weaver

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My best game plan is to sit on the bench and call out specific instructions like 'C'mon Boog,' 'Get a hold of one, Frank,' or 'Let's go, Brooks.'
Earl Weaver

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6.
This ain't a football game, we do this every day.
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I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
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Optimism is the cheerful frame of mind that enables a teakettle to sing, though in hot water up to its nose.
Earl Weaver

Quote Topics by Earl Weaver: Baseball Sports Team Games Thinking Running Player July Jobs Winning Momentum Mistake League Dull Years Guy Meaningful Starting Over Clubs Inevitable Hurt Stars Men Pitching Cigarette Leadership Starting Extraordinary Tombstone Umpires
9.
Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.
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The job of arguing with the umpire belongs to the manager, because it won't hurt the team if he gets thrown out of the game.
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11.
Economics played a role. Raleighs have gone from six fifty to nine dollars a carton, but there's a three-quarter cent coupon on the back. You can get all kinds of things with them, blenders, everything. I saved up enough one time and got Al Bumbry.
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12.
A manager's job is simple. For one hundred sixty-two games you try not to screw up all that smart stuff your organization did last December.
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13.
Team speed for Christ's sake. You got bleeping' bleep bleep little fleas on the bleeping' bases getting picked off, trying to steal, getting thrown out, taking runs away from you. You get some big bleep bleepers that can hit the bleeping ball out of ballpark and you can't make any bleep bleeping mistakes.
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The Chinese tell time by 'The Year of the Horse' or 'The Year of the Dragon.' I tell time by 'The Year of the Back' and 'The Year of the Elbow.' This year it's 'The Year of the Ulnar Nerve.' Someone once asked me if I had any physical incapacities of my own. 'Sure I do,' I said. 'One big one - Jim Palmer.'
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I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn't ask questions.
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Leadership can be defined in one word - honesty. You must be honest with the players and honest with yourself.
Earl Weaver

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I'd rather you walk with the bases loaded.
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18.
No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
Earl Weaver

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I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.
Earl Weaver

20.
I gave (pitcher) Mike Cuellar more chances than I gave my first wife.
Earl Weaver

21.
The key step for an infielder is the first one, but before the ball is hit.
Earl Weaver

22.
Some have said that I can accept inadequacies in my players but not in umpires. That completely misses the point. I can't tolerate anyone's mistake.
Earl Weaver

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Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.
Earl Weaver

24.
Momentum? Momentum is the next day's starting pitcher.
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25.
You win pennants in the off season when you build your teams with trades and free agents.
Earl Weaver

26.
If you know how to cheat, start now.
Earl Weaver

27.
I don't think, in all the years I managed them, I ever spoke more than thirty words to Frank and Brooks Robinson.
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28.
Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.
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29.
Every time I fail to smoke a cigarette between innings, the opposition will score.
Earl Weaver

30.
The only thing that matters is what happens on the little hump out in the middle of the field.
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31.
The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job. I don't welcome any challenge. I'd rather have nine guys named Robinson.
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32.
I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
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33.
We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow.
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Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher.
Earl Weaver

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A manager should stay as far away as possible from his players. I don't know if I said ten words to Frank Robinson while he played for me.
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36.
There was nothing to keep him (Cal Ripken, Jr.) from being a star in the Major Leagues. That was inevitable.
Earl Weaver

37.
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