Earl Weaver Quotes
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The only thing I'd ever wanted in my life was to be a major-league ballplayer, but I had to admit to myself that I wasn't good enough. It broke my heart.
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No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.
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Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.
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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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To keep your job, you fire others or bench them or trade them. You have to do the thinking for 25 guys, and you can't be too close to any of them.
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This ain't a football game, we do this every day.
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If you want to steal a base, steal a base. Don't make the hitter swing at a bad pitch trying to protect the runner.
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Playing baseball is fun. If I could play, I'd never retire. But managing is work. It's constant decisions of whose feelings you want to hurt all the time.
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I had a successful career: not necessarily a Hall of Fame career, but a successful one.
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I really don't like confrontations. One of the reasons I'm retiring is that I'm tired of hurting people's feelings.
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The guy who says, 'I love the challenge of managing,' is one step from being out of a job.
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I used to be a pretty good hit-and-run man when I played in the minors. I handled the bat well and could hit the ball to the right side of the infield. Nevertheless, I know that you often give the opposition an out on the hit-and-run play.
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People always make a lot about how I don't carry grudges. That's my religious upbringing. I went nine years without missing Sunday school. Lutheran. I can't live with hatred inside of me. That's what I learned. I ain't scared of dying, either.
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There are only three outs an inning, and they should be treasured. Give one away, and you're making everything harder for yourself.
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If an umpire misses a called third strike and the other side ends up scoring because of it, I'm not going to forget it. If there are runners on second and third and two out, and if the umpire has just given the hitter an extra strike and the next pitch goes into the hole and both runs score, I've got to say something to the guy.
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What else does a manager do but push buttons? He doesn't hit, he doesn't run, he doesn't throw, and he doesn't catch the ball. A manager has twenty-five players, or twenty-five buttons, and he selects which one he'll use, or push, that day. The manager who presses the right buttons most often is the one who wins the most games.
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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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I think there should be bad blood between all clubs.
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In my mind, the home run is paramount because it means instant runs.
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A winning player is nothing more than a player on a winning team. A losing player is a guy who played on a losing team that year.
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Coaches are an integral part of any manager's team, especially if they are good pinochle players.
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The worst thing about being on the road is all you want to do when you get home is to stay home, but as soon as you get back, all the wife wants to do is go out because she's been stuck home all the time you've been stuck on the road.
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A manager gets in the Hall of Fame by what his players have done for him.
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Don't worry, the fans don't start booing until July.