1.
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
3.
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
4.
On my tombstone just write, 'The sorest loser that ever lived.'
Earl Weaver
5.
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
6.
This ain't a football game, we do this every day.
Earl Weaver
7.
I became an optimist when I discovered that I wasn't going to win any more games by being anything else.
Earl Weaver
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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
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Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.
Earl Weaver
10.
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.
Earl Weaver
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.
Earl Weaver
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.
Earl Weaver
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.
Earl Weaver
14.
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.'
Earl Weaver
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I never got many questions about my managing. I tried to get twenty-five guys who didn't ask questions.
Earl Weaver
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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
17.
I'd rather you walk with the bases loaded.
Earl Weaver
18.
No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
Earl Weaver
19.
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.
Earl Weaver
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.
Earl Weaver
28.
Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.
Earl Weaver
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.
Earl Weaver
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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.
Earl Weaver
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I think the National League has better biorhythms in July.
Earl Weaver
33.
We're so bad right now that for us back-to-back home runs means one today and another one tomorrow.
Earl Weaver
34.
Momentum is only as good as tomorrow's starting pitcher.
Earl Weaver
35.
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.
Earl Weaver
36.
There was nothing to keep him (Cal Ripken, Jr.) from being a star in the Major Leagues. That was inevitable.
Earl Weaver
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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